Gate for to get into the rescrit area in Chernobyl nuclear power station.
Some objects on the floor of the nursery school of Pripyat.
An elderly farmer living near the Chernobyl plant. She returned to live here illegally in abandoned houses since the accident.
A child is undergoing chemotherapy in the treatment of ‘hospital in Kiev.
A blind child with serious mental illness in an orphanage near Gomel.
An orphan is subjected to a medical check up in an orphanage near Kiev.
A child with cancer in hospital in Kiev. He lived near the contaminated area. Both parents died of cancer.
Some children with mental problems playing in the courtyard of an orphanage on the outskirts of Kiev.
A child affected with leukemia in hospital in Kiev.
On the wall in a school near Gomel some photos in memory of some citizens died for radiation effect.
Erik Messori
is based in Italy. He began his photographic career with local newpapers in his native Italian region. In 2003 he began working freelance for publications such as the Out of Focus Magazine, Photojournale , Private Magazine, The Australian, Bite Magazine, Visura Magazine, Social DocumentaryMagazine, Corriere della Sera, and PeaceReporter Magazine. He cooperates with News International and A.N.S.A. During career he has photographed International stories in Albania, Kosovo, India, Chernobyl, Belarus, Bangladesh, Italy, Vietnam and Australia, as well as the war of camorra in Naples and earthquake in Aquila in 2009. His Chernobyl work was published in book Connections Across A Human Planet of Photojournale. Personal website: www.erikmessori.com
The Silence Of Chernobyl (2006)
The most terrible technological accident of human history knows: Chernobyl, once an unknown place in the rich land of the Ukraine. Now a single chilling word that still casts a dark shadow of death and contamination. Twenty-five years after the disaster that struck Europe, the tragedy continues. Many people live in villages close to the nuclear plant in conditions at the edge of human survival. The damage is still very much in evidence. Everywhere, in this area called THE ZONE, there is the burdensome heritage of disaster and everything still remain in total silence. The Chernobyl accident generated unknown victims by effects; it is impossible to know how many people dead for the consequences. The issue of long-term effects of Chernobyl disaster on civilians is controversial. Over 300,000 people were resettled because of the accident; millions lived and continue to live in the contaminated area. On the other hand, most of those affected received relatively low doses of radiation, there is little evidence of increased mortality – cancers or birth defects among them – and, when such evidence is present, existence of a causal link to radioactive contamination is uncertain.
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