Maria Semenyuk, 78, at home in Paryshev, Chornobyl exclusion zone, 2015
The culmination of six years’ work shows the daily lives of the Samosely who returned to their heavily contaminated villages after being evacuated in the wake of the disaster.
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in reply to earthling • • •Hanna Zavorotnya, 83, cleaning mushrooms collected from the forest in the exclusion zone, 2015.
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in reply to earthling • • •Lunch in the house of Hanna Zavorotnya in Kupovate, Chornobyl exclusion zone, 2016
By the time this photograph was taken the Samosely numbers had dwindled to fewer than 200 octogenerians.
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in reply to earthling • • •Ivan Ilchinko, 83, at his home in Kupovate, 2015
Describing the Chornobyl ‘deadzone’, Mittica said it had been full of life: ‘Life affected and mutated by the largest and most catastrophic technological accident that humanity has ever suffered, a humanity that has no voice and has suffered all the consequences’.
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in reply to earthling • • •A ‘stalker’ playing with a gas mask, #Pripyat, 2017
The most recent to start to enter illegally were referred to as ‘stalkers’, young Ukrainians playing survival games. With the area now heavily mined, such adventures are no longer possible.
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