Chernobyl reactor 4 ‘s old sarcophagus // Ukraine
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Kyiv crematorium by architect Abraham Miletskiy // Ukraine
Kyiv crematorium by architect Abraham Miletskiy…
Astral shape made of concrete
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Ukraine
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Kiev // Ukraine
Holodomor (голодомо́р ) , literraly “Extermination by hunger”, was a man-made famine ( under the guidance of Joseph Stalin) which killed an estimated 2.5 to 7.5 million ukrainian between 1932 and 1933.
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
Pique-nique au bord du chemin / Пикник на обочине // Ukraine
Pripyat: Today silence in what was before the Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster a model city of the communist bloc. Cinemas, clinics, schools, housing and all the facilities that a city of more than 50,000 people could count in the 80s are now left to decay under the action of time and weather. However it is enough for the visitors to listen to the click click of his Geiger counter to realize that behind these monolithic gutted buildings , and the strange tranquility of this city that nature slowly engulfs, are always at work colossal forces .
A silent war is at play here, a war that we have probably already lost.
Located barely to 3 km away from the number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat is now the capital of a territory dumb to changing laws, an area such as prophesied by the Strugatsky brothers. The hazards of wind and precipitation have left anarchic radioactivity spots, drawing the contours of a strange world where normality rubs death.
Лелека і вуглецю – Tchernobyl fresco // Ukraine
Лелека і вуглецю – Tchernobyl fresco // Ukraine
The lunar moth’s lair // Ukraine
Kiev crematorium // “Park of Memory” // Kiev // Ukraine // 1978 // Architect Abraham Miletskiy
Like a lunar moth flying into the light only to be burned …
Як міль летить до світла тільки щоб згоріти…
From (A)bkhazia to (U)kraine through my lenses …
From (A)bkhazia to (U)kraine through my lenses
Межигір’я – A certain taste for indecency // Ukraine
On February 21, 2014, when the ousted Ukraine President Yanukovych’s residence mezhyhirya was finally open to the public none of the visitors were probably ready for the over the top melange of kitsch ,excess and indecencies of the whole estate .
Past War / Future War // Ukraine
Again, damn it, radio, television, the papers.
The powers that be, as expected, are consummate crooks.
Those back in the days at least had some fear, today’s are no better.