Chernobyl Journal: Epilogue

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | odds and ends, project wormwood, updates

After three months of intense publishing, the Chernobyl Journal is now finished. In order to make it easier to read and find, I have collected all material around the trip on a special page. You will also find separate pages for pictures, videos and sounds alone.

Thank you!

My great thanks goes out to my fellow zone travellers, Beat, René and Laura, for pulling this project through – I couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks to the Chernobyl InterInform team – especially Yuriy – for the amazing tour and the freedom we had to explore the zone. Thanks to Robert for borrowing me a Geiger counter to keep us safe. Thanks to the organizers of the Pecha-Kucha Basel Night for allowing me to show my pictures. Thanks to all of you who commented, shared, corrected mistakes, translated Russian, and spread the word. And a big, big thanks to my wife, my favorite art critic, who had to bear me geeking out on Cherno-stuff week after week and still supported me and kept me sane. You’re all amazing – THANK YOU!

So, what’s next?

For now, my plan is to enjoy the summer, and concentrate on some more sound recordings (I’ve got a new microphone, which I really want to try out) . There are at least two short movies from previous locations in the making (a brewery and a potassium mine). My backlog of pictures from the last three years is still huge, so expect more decay photographs. I also might take a dip into abstract photography, because I’ve become increasingly fascinated with it.

As for my plans for the Chernobyl material, I am planning to organize an exhibition within a couple of months, and am playing with the idea of publishing part of the journal as a book. Stay tuned.

2 Comments to Chernobyl Journal: Epilogue

rene
July 10, 2009

Sure looking forward to that exhibition, hope we’ll have time to come over. And thanks back to you – after all, it was you who initiated the trip, contacting me about the idea of going there in the first place. I would probably not have bothered to visit again otherwise. New rainbows to come!

Keith Brooks
July 20, 2009

This was a very good insight into a subject and place a lot of people forgot, maybe purposefully. Good read and loved the photography, I don’t think I missed a word or picture.

Thanks for sharing your work with the rest of the world.