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Chernobyl Journal #6: Pool & School

Monday, May 18th, 2009 | decay, project wormwood, travel journal, video | No Comments

This is part six of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.

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We waited for half an hour for Yuriy to come back – he had gone to the security perimeter to report the looters – until we took up Tanya’s offer of quickly going to “school #2″. The school, one of Pripyat’s seven schools, was supposed to be south of Lenin square. We followed her through the woods around old apartment blocks, came across an old electronics store with lots of old TVs, but didn’t find the school. › Continue reading

Tags: abandonments, Chernobyl, hdr, photography, Pripyat, urban exploration, urbanexploration, urbex

Chernobyl Journal #4: The Buildings on Lenin Square

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 | decay, project wormwood, travel journal | 2 Comments

This is part four of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.

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After letting us get a first impression and pictures of the square, Yuriy showed us the way into one of the old apartment blocks. I must have accidentally wandered into the wrong building, because most of the rooms were empty – almost no furniture and no personal belongings apart from occasional books and papers on the ground. He also warned us not to spend too much time in these blocks, “not for physical danger, but for emotional danger”; as opposed to other areas in the city, I didn’t find the blocks especially depressing or unsettling, as they consisted of mostly empty rooms with similar layouts. › Continue reading

Tags: abandonments, Chernobyl, photography, Pripyat, urban exploration, urbanexploration

Project Wormwood: A Trip to Chernobyl

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | decay, hdr, project wormwood, reviews, updates | 6 Comments

For almost two years, I have been planning a trip to one of the most deserted places on earth – deserted in the sense of “people have lived there and left”. The place is the city of Pryptiat near Chernobyl. And it is the most radioactively polluted spot on earth.

Google Maps: Chernobyl Reactor

“Chernobyl”, which is Ukrainian, means “Wormwood” in English. Wormwood is typically known for its bitter taste and it being one of the main ingredients of absinthe. It also bears a strange biblical references to a star which, in an apocalyptic vision of John the Evangelist, fell from the sky and made the waters undrinkably bitter.

“Project Wormwood” seemed a suitable name for this project. › Continue reading

Tags: abandonments, Chernobyl, Prypiat, urban exploration, urbex

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