Two decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, photographer Paul Fusco has put together an incredibly disturbing and moving photo gallery of the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe. The following photo essay is a vast emotional drain but it is something that everyone should see.
There was more conatmination released at Chernobyl than there was at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The Chernobyl accident released a total amount of Caesium equivalent to 200 times the contamination at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Around 70% of the fallout settled in Belarus where more than 3,500 settlements, including 27 towns and more than 2 million people were contaminated.
And if that wasn’t gut-wrenching enough, the Pixel Press website: ‘Nuclear Nightmares’, has a stunning series of photographs by Robert Knoth with reporting by Antoinette De Jong. The photo-essay documents the ongoing human impact of Chernobyl on those who survived, their children, and the extended communities around them.
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