Robert Knoth - Nuclear devastation in the former Soviet Union
Since the first nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk in 1949, the Soviet military and civilian nuclear programmes grew until they reached across the Soviet Union. A long line of grave accidents, incidents and disasters have not slowed down plans to further expand these industries, even in areas that have been heavily contaminated.
Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has been traveling through Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, the Urals and Siberia since 1999. The people in these photographs - many of them children and teenagers - are forced to grapple with the apocalyptic consequences of technological folly.
Festival of documentary photography •
exhibitions •
Monday, 2. June 2008
