Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy Details
About the Author Pierpaolo Mittica, a dentist by profession, completed his first project of social reportage in Sarajevo in 1997, and since then went on to produce his first published work on Kosovo in 1999. From 2002-4 he visited Belarus and the Ukraine several times to document the heritage left by Chernobyl. Dr Rosalie Bertell was recently selected to be one of the 1000 Peace Women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2005. Biometrician and environmental epidemiologist, she works for the victims or potential victims of industrial, technological and military pollution. Read more
Reviews
This book is not a firsthand account of Chernobyl disaster as-it-was-unfolding per sé, such as Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter or Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, but it's equally good if all you would like to do is see how an abandoned place looks like, from an artist's perspective. If you're, however looking for something more blunt and more written material than photos, this is not for you. The book, however, contains a couple of maps and short resumes of various aspects of the disaster.
