Eerie Photographs Reveal the Unseen Ruins of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in a New Book
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Oct 06 2020 at 1:47 PM GMT
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- After embarking on both permitted and illegal ventures into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, British writer and photographer Darmon Richter was able to document the ghostly ruins and abandoned structures throughout the hazardous region.
- He captures eerie Cold War-era relics in a series of mysterious photographs, including a paint-curling mural venerating Soviet heroes and the room where the initial malfunction, which decimated an area now part of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, occurred in 1986.
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- Published Oct 6, 2020 1:47 PM GMT