March 6, 2009 @ 10:47 am
I didn’t know this, but there’s apparently a company that sets up tours to Chernobyl and allow you to roam the nearby abandoned town of Prypiat with a tour guide. The tour guide carries around a radiation detector and shows you the amounts of radiation still in the area (not deadly amounts, but definitely nothing you want to stay in for a long time).
Here’s one man’s photos from the tour sometime last year. According to him, the tour was easy to book and very accommodating to his travel needs. This actually sounds like something I’d like to do.
February 12, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
I’ve seen my fair share of documentary photographs about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, but I’ve never seen a set of photos so powerful and well put together as those from Robert Knoth. [via]
In nuclear NIGHTMARES: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl, Robert Knoth documents the aftereffects of the world’s most devastating nuclear disaster with great detail. Together with reporter Antoinette De Jong, Knoth presents a substantial look at how this one event has changed thousands of lives for the worse.
Be warned: Some of the images are graphic and tragic.
Hover over each photograph in this set and read the description.
