The outpost at Land Measuring Point 10, more commonly referred to as NIP-10, was where Man first managed to send a message to Venus. When this happened, it was hardly a surprise to its residents—this was precisely what they intended. Furthermore, they acquired a small sense of entitlement a few years earlier, when they were the first people to see the far side of the Moon. Continue reading “Abandoned Soviet Tracking Station NIP-10”
Miercoles 29 de Junio 2011 – 19:30Esta visión gira en torno a quiénes somos y cómo nuestras formas de vivir afectan los lugares donde habitamos, los cuales pueden, de un día para otro, tornarse en desierto(s).
A feature in The Serial Optimist for Igrushka. Igrushka is my series on Chernobyl that combines images of toys from the city of Pripyat with testimony from people who were children at the time of the accident.
At the time of the accident Chernobyl, was about 800 years old and had c.15,000 people. Today it has about 3,000 inhabitants. Down the road, the City of Pripyat was built in 1970 to house the plant workers. It was a planned city, and if one looks at it from above, the shape of a sickle becomes evident in the main plaza. On April 25th, 1986, Pripyat had about 49,400 inhabitants. Had the accident not occured, estimates place Pripyat’s population in 2010 at close to 80,000. Continue reading “Chernobyl 25 Years Revisited – Chapter 6 A City in Numbers”
There are discreet spaces in Pripyat where things are hardly touched since they were abandoned. This is a small sample of my most recent work and some of the stories from the buildings I entered. Continue reading “Chernobyl 25 Years Revisited – Chapter 5 Wandering in Pripyat”