Half Life Chornobyl

With this project, Volker Kreidler presents an extraordinary photographic record that traces Ukraine's transformation from the post-Soviet spirit of change to its current defense against the Russian invasion.

On April 26, 1986, at 01:23 a.m., Reactor Block 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant suffered the most catastrophic failure in the history of civil nuclear energy. Nearly ten years later, in 1995, the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden commissioned photographer Volker Kreidler to docume...