Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 6月22日 23時00分

Children’s chairs sit in front of a piano in the ghost town of Pripyat, the most popular tourist attraction in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The radioactive fallout spread over thousands of square kilometers, driving more than a quarter of a million people permanently from their homes. Pripyat today bears less-than-honest witness to the hasty departure. More than three decades later, tourists and guides create another bewildering disturbance as they naively seek to articulate a deeper comprehension. With limited time in the Zone, visitors or guides often add to or alter existing arrangements, including this one (as a child could never even reach the keys), making compositions designed to be (often are) photographed close-up.

By stepping back to a larger frame, I am able to achieve a deeper understanding. These arrangements represent artful misinterpretations—designed by and for visitors—seeking to personalize tragedy in a naïve attempt to comprehend its magnitude.

@thephotosociety #Chernobyl #Pripyat #ExclusionZone #Ukraine

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