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"We didn’t know it was radiation. We thought we were just putting out a fire. The light was strange, almost beautiful… but the heat and the taste of metal in my mouth told a different story. Only later did we realize that we had already lost the moment we arrived."
"We didn’t know it was radiation. We thought we were just putting out a fire. The light was strange, almost beautiful… but the heat and the taste of metal in my mouth told a different story. Only later did we realize that we had already lost the moment we arrived."
"We were given one order: keep going."
1986
Keep going
Keep going
"The explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was not a classic explosion with a single visible fireball, but a series of powerful blasts that tore the reactor open. The roof was blown off, and fragments of graphite and burning material were hurled into the air. The surroundings filled with smoke, dust, and an invisible but deadly radiation."
"The explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was not a classic explosion with a single visible fireball, but a series of powerful blasts that tore the reactor open. The roof was blown off, and fragments of graphite and burning material were hurled into the air. The surroundings filled with smoke, dust, and an invisible but deadly radiation."
Keep going
For this project, Amélie and Ianna focus on the Chernobyl Disaster. Through a series of six images, we present a visual and emotional narrative that begins with the chaos of the explosion night, where firefighters rushed in without understanding the invisible danger surrounding them.
Gradually, the series shifts from urgency to an unsettling stillness, revealing the aftermath, not only on people, but also on the environment, including the abandoned city of Pripyat.
The images are styled as faded, aged photographs, like fragile memories worn down by time. In this way, the series becomes more than a chronological story; it is an attempt to make the invisible tangible and to bring the impact of the disaster closer to the viewer.