26 April 1986 saw one of the most horrific accidents in history, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was going through some what was a routine procedure where things started to go wrong, systems started to over heat and then on of the reactor vessel's ruptured which exposed the graphite vessels causing this to ignite. This caused a radioactive fallout over a wide are including Pripyat, over 60% landing in Belarus. People were told to leave there homes and belongings and leave town, within two days Chernobyl was a ghost town, locked in a decaying time field for the past 27 year's. Niki Feijen has managed to catch some fantastic imagery from the result of the fallout, when looking at these fantastic images you can almost hear the children still playing in the hallways, the people swimming in the pool, the baby's crying in their cots in the hospital beds waiting for there parents to take them home, a home that no longer exist.
Just from these images you can see how much of a chill this put down your neck, its not the fact that people just left the town, it almost seems that something was left behind, a part of who those people are, a scar if you like. 31 deaths directly attributed to the accident, 64 was in total was in direct result of the fallout, which from the imager could off been a lot more worse! The radiation that was caused buy the Nuclear Reactor was equivalent to twenty times the atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this gives you an idea on how disastrous this was and why people will be unable to ever return.
This sinister picture looks like something out of a horror film, but it was something that was very personal to a young girl, putting the gas mask on the dole making sure she will be safe from the fallout and won't be harmed but had no space, room or time to take the dole with them, so was left behind still safe from the poisonous air hiding behind the mask that will never come off. I wonder if the girl that owned that dole see's this image and is happy knowing her little dole is still safe from the bad air? Or regret that they never had space or time for her?... Shame.
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