“A monumental work, spanning two decades, that conveys both the individual tragedies and historical consequences of humanity’s greatest nuclear disaster.”
— lensculture
National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig, made nine visits to Chernobyl over a period of 20 years; this is his powerful record of an environmental and human tragedy. Through the perspective of the victims living with the emotional and physical aftermath, to the Exclusion Zone created by a massive evacuation (more than 350,000 people by the year 2000), to the abandoned neighboring city of Pripyat, once a scientist's dream in terms of quality of life yet now uninhabitable, it is a record of almost unbelievable suffering and desolation.
Opening with an essay by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of state of the Soviet Union, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, this is a deeply personal journey into a landscape forever changed.
The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
by Gerd Ludwig
iPad app designed, produced, and published by Lisa Lytton
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National Press Photographers Association, 1st place, Best of Photojournalism, Tablet