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Tjernobyl

April 2006 marked the twentieth anniversary of the most devastating nuclear civil catastrophe ever. The radioactivity that was freed in the explosion of the nuclear factory in Chernobyl (ex USSR) contaminated the whole region, its inhabitants, it's soil, water and air.

You can see a portfolio of Christoph Bolten's work at http://milim.com/HTML/new_work.htm

Christophe Boltens says "When I first set foot into the Zone of Chernobyl I was immediately surprised by the peacefulness of this landscape, underlined by the fact that everything was covered in snow. Abandoned villages, towns, industrial complexes all felt very serene and only my knowledge of what had happened in the past instilled a slight feeling of horror into the scene. Monuments of human achievement: art, technology, architecture, medicine ?all falling to pieces. Nature is taking over again and entropy is at work. In the back of your mind is always the omnipresent yet invisible force called radiation. The whole scene overwhelms you with so many different feelings ? some negative, some positive."

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