Gymnasium at the abandoned town of Pripyat near Chernobyl. The nuclear disaster in 1986 with reactor number 4 in Chernobyl meant that the city of 40,000 inhabitants had to be evacuated. Nobody ever returned. The beauty of decay can be seen here. This image was photographed with an infrared camera at a wavelength of 550 nanometers, giving everything that lives an almost radioactive red glow.
When I was about 20 years old I wondered about the big posters in the bus shelters (abri's). I want to be able to make this too! So big, so sharp, so beautiful light, the perfection! That's how it started and after 8 years working as an.. Read more…