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Chernobyl: A Stalker’s Guide by Darmon Richter: Book Review
Chernobyl: A Stalker’s Guide by Darmon Richter: Book Review
All photographs except film stills – © Darmon Richter
Growing up in the 1970s and 80s amidst a plethora of media threatening a grim dystopian future, my generation’s minds were prepped with facing the fallout of nuclear disaster in films ranging from ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Threads’ to ‘When the Wind Blows’ and then on Saturday 26th April 1986 the wormwood star fell and…
Early starts aren’t nice. They’re even worse when you wake up in a cold sweat imagining you’re trapped in Chernobyl and history has repeated itself. Thankfully, it became clear that hadn’t happened when I woke up, but it did leave me unable to get back to sleep from about 4am, four hours before my tour began. Perhaps that was my subconscious telling me that I was a little more apprehensive than…
Last night I dreamt of Pripyat.
I was on a bus and caught a glimpse of the famous city limit, trying to capture it with my phone as we drove past it.
I saw the statues of the firefighters, I saw tourists taking pictures with them.
It was a peaceful landscape, waiting for visitors as always, as if nothing had happened.
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine