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Annya Pesenko, from Belarus, is a Chernobyl victim. She suffers a painful brain tumour from a nuclear accident that happened in 1986, before she was even born.
Enlarge imageWhere: Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford St, Paddington NSW
When: Friday 14 March to Saturday 26 April 2008
Opening times: Tues-Fri 12pm-7pm; Sat-Sun 10am-6pm
Special event: On 26 March, join a panel discussion on photo activism, featuring Roberth Knoth, photographer Dean Sewell and Greenpeace audio visual coordinator, Michelle Thomas. More details.
Dutch photographer Robert Knoth took many startling images during his travels in the former Soviet Union, documenting the devastating and lasting effects nuclear power has had on local people.
The people in these photographs – many of them children and teenagers – are like us all. Except that, through no fault of their own, they must grapple with the apocalyptic consequences of technological folly.
Annya Pesenko (or Chernobyl certificate no. 000358/) is only 15. She has been ill most of her life, since a brain tumour was diagnosed at age four, and is now bedridden.
Robert Knoth's upfront photographs allow viewers to enter the lives of Annya and others to gain an understanding of their ordeal without making a spectacle of it. Greenpeace is helping to fund this extraordinary exhibition.
Large areas of the former Soviet Union are contaminated, not only by incidents like Chernobyl, but by unsafe practices in the nuclear industry and hundreds of nuclear tests since the 1950s. Despite this, Russia plans to double its number of operating reactors by 2020 and play a key role in processing and storing radioactive materials from all over the world in the 21st century.
When: Friday 14 March to Saturday 26 April 2008
Opening times: Tues-Fri 12pm-7pm; Sat-Sun 10am-6pm
Special event: On 26 March, join a panel discussion on photo activism, featuring Roberth Knoth, photographer Dean Sewell and Greenpeace audio visual coordinator, Michelle Thomas. More details.
Dutch photographer Robert Knoth took many startling images during his travels in the former Soviet Union, documenting the devastating and lasting effects nuclear power has had on local people.
The people in these photographs – many of them children and teenagers – are like us all. Except that, through no fault of their own, they must grapple with the apocalyptic consequences of technological folly.
Annya Pesenko (or Chernobyl certificate no. 000358/) is only 15. She has been ill most of her life, since a brain tumour was diagnosed at age four, and is now bedridden.
Robert Knoth's upfront photographs allow viewers to enter the lives of Annya and others to gain an understanding of their ordeal without making a spectacle of it. Greenpeace is helping to fund this extraordinary exhibition.
Living with nuclear devastation
Large areas of the former Soviet Union are contaminated, not only by incidents like Chernobyl, but by unsafe practices in the nuclear industry and hundreds of nuclear tests since the 1950s. Despite this, Russia plans to double its number of operating reactors by 2020 and play a key role in processing and storing radioactive materials from all over the world in the 21st century.
