CHERNOBYL PROJECT

This work focused on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area defined not only by its visible ruins but, more importantly, by its invisible radioactivity. It went beyond a traditional photographic approach by using radiographic techniques that allowed the terrain itself to leave an impression of its radioactive footprint on film. This new way of working was both a technical adaptation and a deliberate tactic to graphically communicate the pervasive yet intangible radioactive presence that permeates the Exclusion Zone. A presence whose traces we can never fully grasp through our senses, except for the destructive traces it leaves behind.

The project was developed in collaboration with the Radio-Protection Institute in Rio de Janeiro, the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich, and the Sakharov University in Minsk.