Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Homage: Remembering Chernobyl.






Homage: Remembering Chernobyl. Photographs by Jim Krantz. Jim Krantz Studio, 2011. 132 pp., illustrated throughout, 8,75x11,5". Images from here.

Book description:

"In the fall of 2009 and 2010 photographer Jim Krantz traveled to Ukraine, photographing the individuals still living in the shadow of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, and the abandoned villages that surround it.

While there he discovered a long-forgotten eulogy to the village penned by a fleeing resident, celebrating the former glory of the village, the author's home, and promising to return one day.

This letter planted the seed for 'Homage: Remembering Chernobyl', a new series of photographs, an accompanying monograph, and video produced in collaboration with Emmy Award-winning editor Josh Bodnar / Whitehouse Post.

The catalogue of the 'Homage: Remembering Chernobyl' is released April 26, 2011 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and a substantial portion of all proceeds will benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Included are 99 color photographs from the series and essays on topics ranging from alcoholism, to the effects of radiation and the nature of home by contributors Askold Melnyczuk, physicist Dr. Scott Clearwater Ph.D, Henry Henderson, Midwest Director of the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC), and the pseudonymous 'John King'. "

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