Chernobyl in photos by Pierpaolo Mittica
The book by Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica "Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy" was awarded the prize Pictures of the Year International and was published in the UK, Spain and Japan. Today, Mittik continues to shoot in the exclusion zone.
Radioactive fox in Pripyat. Due to the lack of people, animals in the city feel in their natural habitat. In addition to foxes in Pripyat you can meet boars, bears and wolves.
Sunken ship in the river port of Chernobyl
Forest fire in the city of Pripyat. The fire burns radioactive trees, the ash rises into the air, and after a while it falls to the ground in the form of new radioactive fallout.
Protective corridor between the second and third reactor of the Chernobyl NPP
Dispatcher of the second reactor ChNPP
New radiation hazard signs are being prepared for installation in the exclusion zone.
Construction of a new steel sarcophagus over the 4th reactor of the Chernobyl NPP
Kindergarten "Golden Key" in the city of Pripyat
The village of Radinka. Schoolchildren Vladik and Igor in the yard of their home
Overgrown Ferris Wheel in Pripyat
ph: Pierpaolo Mittica