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Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy
A book by photographer-reporter Pierpaolo Mittica is informative, impassioned and unforgettable. Here we have 20 images plus a book review.
Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy
A book by photographer-reporter Pierpaolo Mittica is informative, impassioned and unforgettable. Here we have 20 images plus a book review.
Chernobyl has demonstrated that the earth is too small a place
for a nuclear accident to happen.
Chernobyl is not the past,
Chernobyl is not history,
Chernobyl is the beginning.
With these words, photographer/author Pierpaolo Mittica states the premise of his passionate personal mission to investigate, research, document and expose the catastrophe that remains and continues 21 years after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in 1986.
Published
28 Apr 2021, 17:19 BST
Radioactive particles can be sandblasted from the surface of metal to decontaminate it and prepare it for resale. The money is good but the risks are high as radioactive dust constantly swirls through the workshop.
Photograph by Pierpaolo Mittica
Every April 25, as night deepens, people gather around an angel that stands atop a stone plinth in the northern Ukrainian town of Chernobyl. The angel’s entire body is made of steel mostly rebar that makes a stark silhouette against the sky and it holds a long trumpet to its lips. This sculpture represents the third angel from the Book of Revelation. According to the Bible, when that trumpet sounded, a great star fell from heaven, the waters became bitter, and many died.