Chernobyl Urbex

[new_republican]

I'm making a list of Urbex places I need to visit before I retire. Chernobyl may have made the list.

Check out this site about:

A Girl
A Geiger Counter
A Motorcycle
A Camera

She makes a photo documentary of her motorcycle tour of Chernobyl and the surrounding areas.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/

For those of you who do not know:
Chernobyl

Comments

[corvar]

This is staged/fake and has been around the Internet for a good number of years. She also did another site about Kiev relating to WWII that is cool Serpent's Wall.

So despite the legitimacy of her story, the images she captures are great.

[corvar]

Oh and I am assuming you have checked out Detroit Yes! and Opacity.

[jaxita]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

[lapsedmodernist]

from what I understand, she faked a lot of the material; she took the same tour anyone can take but made it sound like she goes on solo expeditions all the time.

Chernobyl is, in fact, abandoned, but the actual nuclear plant was located in Pripyat, a city about 15 miles from Chernobyl itself. Chernobyl was the name of the whole district; it means wormwood in Ukranian.

this is that place I was telling you about:
http://www14.big.or.jp/~kawamura/m-city/english_top.html

and the other one
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/where-cathedrals-go-to-die.html

[new_republican]

Oh yeah Chica! You've got a good list of fantasy urbex going. I'm going to steal your spots if you don't watch out!

[lexiphoto]

there is a beautifully disturbing Magnum photo essay they published for the anniversary of chernobyl. Looks for it.

[oxrandyyxo]

There was also an article printed in National Geographic (I think it was in the Fall of last year, but I may be mistaken) about Chernobyl. The article was pretty interesting and the pictures were striking. If I remember correctly, the photographers for the article were admitted to places not normally seen by the public-- but I could be mistaken. I just remember it being a huge deal. My friend has a copy of it, so I could ask her for specific info on it if you are interested.

[namegirl]

I think it was this spring actually. I bought that copy too :D

[oxrandyyxo]

Whew!! I'm just glad that I didn't imagine it. It happens sometimes.

:)