A visual tour of Chernobyl: A disaster of biblical proportions, now compounded by war
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been travelling regularly to the city since 2002. He is now publishing his second book on life after the 1986 accident at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, and regrets that the war has slowed the recovery of the town and the territory
Chernobyl is a cursed word, one that is repeated when one is talking about disasters of (almost) biblical proportions that have been burned into the memory of humanity. Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has published a book (Chernobyl, GOST Books) that is a testament to the communities that either live in in or pass through the exclusion zone, an area of about 2,600 square kilometers (1,000 sq mi) around the site of the 1986 nuclear accident.
