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4882
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A former iron-processing plant lays abandoned in Kirovsk city in Murmansk Province. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many heavy industries in the Arctic were closed as it no longer makes economic and strategic sense to support these industrial communities in the extreme climate and isolation.
4882
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A former iron-processing plant lays abandoned in Kirovsk city in Murmansk Province. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many heavy industries in the Arctic were closed as it no longer makes economic and strategic sense to support these industrial communities in the extreme climate and isolation.

2833
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

For many during their tour, the most arresting attraction is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools, where discarded gas masks litter the classrooms.

But, radiation be damned, in the 25 years following the accident scavengers have already removed many items that were of use, specifically scrap metal. Slightly off the main path for tourists is the former Pripyat Sports Complex, one of the few buildings not substantially altered by tourist presence.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved
2833
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

For many during their tour, the most arresting attraction is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools, where discarded gas masks litter the classrooms.

But, radiation be damned, in the 25 years following the accident scavengers have already removed many items that were of use, specifically scrap metal. Slightly off the main path for tourists is the former Pripyat Sports Complex, one of the few buildings not substantially altered by tourist presence.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved

2832
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

For many during their tour, the most arresting attraction is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools. Hundreds of discarded gas masks litter the floor of the canteen. In a kindergarten children’s cots are littered with shreds of mattresses and pillows and in a gymnasium floors rot and paint peels.

But, radiation be damned, in the 25 years following the accident scavengers have already removed many items that were of use, specifically scrap metal. And now tourism is leaving its own mark: Pripyat less and less bears witness to the hasty departure of its former residents. Instead, there are many signs of the visitors' need to simplify the message, - most noticeably the doll, neatly arranged next to a gas mask, has become the standard motif.
In the kindergarten "Golden Key - Zolotoy Kluchik" children's toys and gas masks create this strange still life. One can suspect that the mix was created intentionally.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved
2832
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

For many during their tour, the most arresting attraction is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools. Hundreds of discarded gas masks litter the floor of the canteen. In a kindergarten children’s cots are littered with shreds of mattresses and pillows and in a gymnasium floors rot and paint peels.

But, radiation be damned, in the 25 years following the accident scavengers have already removed many items that were of use, specifically scrap metal. And now tourism is leaving its own mark: Pripyat less and less bears witness to the hasty departure of its former residents. Instead, there are many signs of the visitors' need to simplify the message, - most noticeably the doll, neatly arranged next to a gas mask, has become the standard motif.
In the kindergarten "Golden Key - Zolotoy Kluchik" children's toys and gas masks create this strange still life. One can suspect that the mix was created intentionally.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved

2829
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many visitors is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. But 25 years after the catastrophe nature starts rebounding.

An excited group of tourists is comparing and photographing their read-outs on their personal Geiger counters.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved
2829
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many visitors is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. But 25 years after the catastrophe nature starts rebounding.

An excited group of tourists is comparing and photographing their read-outs on their personal Geiger counters.
© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved

2828
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many visitors is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. But 25 years after the catastrophe nature starts rebounding. Grass pushes up through the cracks of dormant roads that once were glorious promenades, and even trees grow through broken windows and doors.

On April 26, 1986 this amusement park with bumper cars and a Ferris wheel in the city center was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations, when the nearby reactor blew up, contaminated thousands of square kilometers and forced more than a quarter of a million people to abandon their towns and villages. Rotting away for 25 years, it has become a symbol of the abandonment of the area it is now becoming an attraction for tourist groups.
©Gerd Ludwig
2828
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many visitors is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. But 25 years after the catastrophe nature starts rebounding. Grass pushes up through the cracks of dormant roads that once were glorious promenades, and even trees grow through broken windows and doors.

On April 26, 1986 this amusement park with bumper cars and a Ferris wheel in the city center was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations, when the nearby reactor blew up, contaminated thousands of square kilometers and forced more than a quarter of a million people to abandon their towns and villages. Rotting away for 25 years, it has become a symbol of the abandonment of the area it is now becoming an attraction for tourist groups.
©Gerd Ludwig

2827
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many tourists is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools where hundreds of discarded gas masks litter the floor of the canteen.

One tourist brought his own gas mask, not to protect himself from the radiation - but simply to for photographs and giggles.

© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved
2827
Tourisme nucléaire
Until now, few groups have had the chance to visit Chernobyl and its contaminated surroundings. But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the world worst nuclear accident to date, the Ukrainian government legalized such tours and is developing plans to attract close to one million visitors to the zone in 2012. The first tours are already underway.

The most arresting attraction for many tourists is the ghost town of Pripyat less than 3km from the failed reactor. In the 1970’s it was constructed for the plant’s personnel. Once a beautiful town, its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated 36 hours after the accident. Visitors get to wander through the debris-strewn corridors and empty classrooms of one of its biggest schools where hundreds of discarded gas masks litter the floor of the canteen.

One tourist brought his own gas mask, not to protect himself from the radiation - but simply to for photographs and giggles.

© Gerd Ludwig 2010 All Rights Reserved

4903
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Sunken boats and abandoned houses lay rotting by an icy bay in Teriberka, a former prosperous fish-processing community.

Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light after the world's largest known natural gas reserve – the Shtokman gas field – was discovered off its shore. Multi-national companies, led by Gazprom, is rushing in to built the area into a landing base for the gas.

Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the gas pipeline from the world's largest known natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
4903
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Sunken boats and abandoned houses lay rotting by an icy bay in Teriberka, a former prosperous fish-processing community.

Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light after the world's largest known natural gas reserve – the Shtokman gas field – was discovered off its shore. Multi-national companies, led by Gazprom, is rushing in to built the area into a landing base for the gas.

Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the gas pipeline from the world's largest known natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email Justin Jin for usage instructions.

3595
Héritage toxique
Prypyat / Ukraine
Le vent souffle sur la ville abandonnée de Prypiat. Le 26 avril 1986, on préparait ce parc d'attractions pour la fête annuelle du 1er mai quand l'accident nucléaire s'est produit.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3595
03/11/2009
Héritage toxique
Prypyat / Ukraine
Le vent souffle sur la ville abandonnée de Prypiat. Le 26 avril 1986, on préparait ce parc d'attractions pour la fête annuelle du 1er mai quand l'accident nucléaire s'est produit.
© Gerd Ludwig
For field 'Date Created' 1/1 stands for month and day not specified.

4889
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
People walk by an empty boarding house in Vorkuta. The city’s population has fallen by a third since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when subsidies for the Far North were reduced.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
4889
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
People walk by an empty boarding house in Vorkuta. The city’s population has fallen by a third since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when subsidies for the Far North were reduced.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.

4891
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Buildings around Vorkuta are being surrendered to the elements as people flee to the south. In this apartment block on the edge of the tundra in Yor Shor village outside Vorkuta town, only one family is left.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
4891
Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Buildings around Vorkuta are being surrendered to the elements as people flee to the south. In this apartment block on the edge of the tundra in Yor Shor village outside Vorkuta town, only one family is left.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.

3600
Héritage toxique
Mer d'Aral / Kazakhstan
Aralsk était autrefois une ville portuaire florissante sur la mer d'Aral. Mais avec le littoral qui a reculé de plus de 80 kilomètres, la ville a perdu son assise économique. De simples vestiges de l'ancien port sont de tristes réminiscences de la fierté passée que ressentaient les habitants pour leur belle ville.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/05/2004 3600
03/05/2004
Héritage toxique
Mer d'Aral / Kazakhstan
Aralsk était autrefois une ville portuaire florissante sur la mer d'Aral. Mais avec le littoral qui a reculé de plus de 80 kilomètres, la ville a perdu son assise économique. De simples vestiges de l'ancien port sont de tristes réminiscences de la fierté passée que ressentaient les habitants pour leur belle ville.
© Gerd Ludwig

5148
The Kurds
A tourist rest stop in Northern Iraq serves as a shelter for Kurdish refugees, who have returned from camps in Turkey but are afraid to go deeper into Iraq to their hometowns. Near Dohuk, Iraq. 1991
© Ed Kashi / VII
5148
The Kurds
A tourist rest stop in Northern Iraq serves as a shelter for Kurdish refugees, who have returned from camps in Turkey but are afraid to go deeper into Iraq to their hometowns. Near Dohuk, Iraq. 1991
© Ed Kashi / VII

5132
The Kurds
Kurdish Pesh Mergas at an abandoned Iraqi army post outside of Zakho, Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991. Iraq 1991
© Ed Kashi / VII
5132
The Kurds
Kurdish Pesh Mergas at an abandoned Iraqi army post outside of Zakho, Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991. Iraq 1991
© Ed Kashi / VII

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