Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Photos

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the explosion at Chernobyl. Here are some links to photo galleries and articles about the disaster and it’s aftermath.

Long Shadow of Chernobyl by Gerd Ludwig

Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster National Geographic article

Still Cleaning Up: 30 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster The Atlantic

Chernobyl’s eerie exclusion zone 30 years on -BBC

Returning to Chernobyl Daily Mail

Those Who Helped Clean Up Chernobyl Business Insider

Chernobyl: 30 Years After the Disaster British Journal of Photography

Chernobyl Photo Archive from Corbis

Images by Russian Photographer Igor Kostin The Guardian

The Chernobyl Gallery

Magnum Photographer Paul Fusco’s Images of People Who Survived

Exploring the Zone by Philip Grossman

Pripyat in Panoramic by Stanislav Vederskyi

Want to visit Chernobyl? You can actually attend photography workshops there.

If you’ve come across any other interesting photo galleries or links, email me and I’ll add them!


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