Untitled Project From Chernobyl (2016-ongoing)
In his ongoing project ‘Untitled Project from Chernobyl’ Maxim works with vernacular and found photographs in the restricted areas, combining them with landscape photographs of the territories that were burned by nuclear energy.
Nowadays, for everyone Chernobyl is associated only with a tragedy at the nuclear power plant and its consequences. But what if we come back to the flourishing times that were so far from the events of 1986? This is where the ‘Untitled Project’ starts.
“Chernobyl, this word stuck in my head since childhood. My younger brother was born one year after the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant which had an impact on his health. The first 7 years of his life, he spent in hospitals, suffering from a terrible disease. That was the very first time I heard about the accident. Years later I came to the lands burned by the so-called peaceful atom.”
