BOOKS & PRINTS.
Books
Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl
Photography by Donald Weber
Text by Larry Frolick
photolucida, Portland, Oregon, 2008
64 pp., 60 colour illustrations, 8½x10″ (216×254 mm)
Softbound
Signed copies available.
These photographs were taken over three years, in the region of Chernobyl, Ukraine – some 20 years after the nuclear reactor incident of April 26, 1986. That first morning, as the plume of radioactive debris fell across the land and into the rest of Europe, the authorities evacuated the city of Pripyat and created a 40-kilometer Exclusion Zone around it. The 50,000 residents had fifteen minutes to leave, and never returned. Today a ring of silent fire surrounds these pine woods and abandoned apartment buildings. People are not supposed to live here; wild boars, rabbits and deer thrive in the lush greenery. Even the steppe wolves have returned.
Donald Weber began visiting this region, because he wanted to see what was there. He had little interest in theories of history, or root causes. His question was simple: What was daily life actually like, in a post-atomic world?
Prints
Prints from The Drunken Bride and Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl are sold as limited edition prints in the following editions:
12 x 18 inches, Edition of 8
16 x 24 inches, Edition of 12
27 x 40 inches, Edition of 5
All prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish. For further information and pricing, please send an email.