Nic Hume: Photographer
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For the past several weeks I have been doing documentary work in and around the Chernobyl region of Ukraine.
The Chernobyl disaster has been a long-standing interest of mine. After being laid-off from the newspaper I was working at I decided to do what I've been talking about for years, and come to Ukraine to see this story through my own eyes. I already know I'll be coming back.
The stories in and around Chernobyl region are, without fail, awe-inspiring. From old women who saw a second sunset in the east on the night following the accident (Actually the raging fire that was still burning at the plant) to the salvage scrappers who live inside the highly-contaminated Exclusion Zone and tell me that even when I think I'm alone in Pripyat, they are watching, the stories here are without equal.
To describe the destruction is impossible.
This place is death.
Even though the devastation here is as absolute, nature is fast reclaiming the contaminated area, and new life can be found everywhere. Hope, it seems, springs eternal.
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Please note that the images here are a collection of photos shot during several weeks doing documentary work in the Chernobyl region of Ukraine. This is *NOT* a portfolio.
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1684 days ago |
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1.24.2004 (Senior Member) |
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The images below are from the
portfolio of Nic Hume. They are presented here for your viewing pleasure. These images may not be used elsewhere and are protected by copyright. To see these images, click on the icon and you will see a much larger image.
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"Chernobyl 1"
Light streams through the shattered skylights of an abandoned garage formerly used to repair plant v... |
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"Chernobyl 2"
An abandoned room in the kindergarten in the now-deserted town of Kopachi, inside the heavily-contam... |
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"Chernobyl 3"
A red stuffed animal rests at the bottom of a flight of stairs in Pripyat kindergarten. |
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"Chernobyl 4"
An abandoned farm just to the east of the Dytyatky Checkpoint entrance to the Exclusion Zone surroun... |
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"Chernobyl 5"
An abandoned farm just to the east of the Dytyatky Checkpoint entrance to the Exclusion Zone surroun... |
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"Chernobyl 6"
A small seedling tree sprouts through the floor of the hospital in the abandoned town of Pripyat. Af... |
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"Chernobyl 7"
The third-floor hallway of Pripyat School #2. Books found on this level of the school indicate it wo... |
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"Chernobyl 8"
An interior hallway of the cargo ship Lvov. The Lvov was one of many ships run aground and abandoned... |
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"Chernobyl 9"
Anatoly Nedashkivsky, a “salvager” who makes his living by breaking into the exclusion zone and salv... |
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"Chernobyl 10"
Mikhail Shpak (left) holds a cat he is fond of, while his mother, Tamara Vorobey, sits in the backgr... |
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