HALF LIFE CHERNOBYL

On April 26, 1986, at 01:23 a.m., Reactor Block 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered the most catastrophic failure in the history of civil nuclear energy. Nearly ten years later, in 1995, the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden commissioned photographer Volker Kreidler to document the aftermath of the disaster on the people, the environment, and the landscape. What began in 2015 as a nature study has evolved through repeated travels to Kyiv over the past year into a highly topical testimony of the political present in Ukraine....[Read more]