What Chernobyl Looks Like Almost Three Decades Later…
Photographer Sergei Gaschak photographed an area deemed uninhabitable to humans: the Chernobyl disaster’s ‘fallout zone.’ While a few people do still choose to live there, animals are more known to have inhabited the area, unaware, obviously, of the radiation that they expose themselves to. Still, few abnormalities seem to form in these animals, apparently, despite the few examples of albino spots and some more serious effects on various swallows.
Gaschak took these photographs with some camera ‘traps’ that you can see in a photo below. In the last image, you can see Gaschak himself planning a shot. What do you think? Would you go in that area to take photos? Would you go back to live there as some have?
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