Inside Chernobyl: life goes on Photography Exhibition
This is a press release about a new photo exhibit in Kyiv, Ukraine. The photography is by a colleague, Michael Forster Rothbart, who has spent much of the past 8 months photographing inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the city of Slavutych and villages near the Exclusion Zone. If you happen to be in Kyiv during the next two weeks, definitely check this out.
If you worked at Chernobyl, would you stay there?
A new photography exhibition reveals the inside of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant today, focusing on the everyday lives of nine people who still work there. Created by an American photographer and Fulbright Scholar, this exhibition honors all those who work inside the Chernobyl plant, and the city of Slavutych where they live.
Highlights of this unusual exhibit are:
The exhibit will open April 24, 2009 at 3 p.m., in Shevchenko Park, near Lva Tolstogo metro station.
Invited speakers include:
The exhibit was created by American photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart, in cooperation with residents of Slavutych. Forster Rothbart is a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine. He has been photographing the lives of villagers near Chernobyl since 2007.
This exhibition was made possible through generous support from:
Natasha Gryvnyak,
Exhibit public relations manager
80503813750
nataliegryvnyak@yahoo.com
Photographs are available for media use at: http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2009/04/downloads.html
Michael Forster Rothbart can be reached at info@mfrphoto.com
If you worked at Chernobyl, would you stay there?
A new photography exhibition reveals the inside of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant today, focusing on the everyday lives of nine people who still work there. Created by an American photographer and Fulbright Scholar, this exhibition honors all those who work inside the Chernobyl plant, and the city of Slavutych where they live.
Highlights of this unusual exhibit are:
- Two 7-meter-long circular panoramas, showing Control Room 1 and the entire plant, giving visitors the impression of standing inside the site.
- Never-before seen photographs from inside the 4th Block "Object Shelter."
- Life stories told by the people who work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The exhibit will open April 24, 2009 at 3 p.m., in Shevchenko Park, near Lva Tolstogo metro station.
Invited speakers include:
- U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor
- Director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Igor Gramotkin
- Director of the Chernobyl Shelter Implementation Plan Laurin Dodd
- Slavutych mayor Volodymyr Udovychenko
- National Chernobyl Museum Scientific Director Anna Korolevska
- Photographer Michael Forster Rothbart
The exhibit was created by American photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart, in cooperation with residents of Slavutych. Forster Rothbart is a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine. He has been photographing the lives of villagers near Chernobyl since 2007.
This exhibition was made possible through generous support from:
- Chernobyl Shelter Implementation Plan Project Management Unit
- Fulbright Program in Ukraine
- United States Embassy in Ukraine
Natasha Gryvnyak,
Exhibit public relations manager
80503813750
nataliegryvnyak@yahoo.com
Photographs are available for media use at: http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2009/04/downloads.html
Michael Forster Rothbart can be reached at info@mfrphoto.com
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