Chernobyl

“Chernobyl is a unique world, full of contrasts, where the stories of life and of death intertwine and where nature is always the first to pay the price of the impact of man on planet Earth. The "dead zone" of Chernobyl is today full of life, a life affected and changed by the accident the most important and catastrophic technological disaster that humanity has ever experienced. never known, a humanity that has no voice and has suffered all the consequences”. Chernobyl by photographer Pierpaolo Mittica is a document on communities that inhabit and pass through the exclusion zone - a zone of approximately 2,600 km2 around the site of the nuclear reactor disaster in Chernobyl in 1986. Mittica first visited Chernobyl in 2002, attracted like many by the idea of ​​photographing the impact of the worst technological catastrophe of the modern era. He returned there several times times and, rather than focusing on ruins and remains, he sought to tell the story of the people he met in this place unique. Although it is one of the most contaminated places on the planet, The Chernobyl Dead Zone was full of life before the war. Today, It has truly become a total exclusion zone. Everything is changing, right? only nature, but also the human genome. With the war in Ukraine, all these stories have changed or no longer exist." The publication of the book coincides with the Chernobyl exhibition at the 38th edition of Venezia Giulia Fotografia 2024 in Spilimbergo, Italy, from May 11 to June 30, 2024. Pierpaolo Mittica (born 1971) lives and works in Italy. He graduated from the Masters in the conservation, technique and history of photography CRAF, in Italy, in 1990.