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Chernobyl 40th Anniversary
I visited Chernobyl in May 2013. I spent 6 days in the exclusion zone and visited a number of locations in Pripyat that were not generally explored at the time. I also made an excursion nearly to the border of Belarus to visit an abandoned...
Read more →Industria v.2
It has been 7 years since I put together "Industria" for my gallery show at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento. Since that show I have continued to travel with my large format view camera, capturing photos of abandoned places....
Read more →My Fitness Routine
I always loved photography, but got even more into it when I realized it was a "practice", an excuse to explore the world around me. The end goal of making photos was important to motivate me to continue the practice. As I get older fitness...
Read more →What Film Would I take to the Moon?
The 50th anniversary of Apollo landing on the moon has me interested in researching NASA's use of analog photography during the missions. I take my view camera to relatively extreme areas and conditions, but nothing compared to going to the...
Read more →Chernobyl-Reactors 5 and 6
During my trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion zone I was able to explore the unfinished reactors 5 and 6. Those are large concrete mazes with huge rooms which were very dark and not all that photogenic, we mostly were looking for a way to get t...
Read more →Chernobyl-When I Light A Torch
Hospitals are the sanctuary of a city, life and death are confronted here on a daily basis. After the Chernobyl explosion, the main hospital of Pripyat was inundated with the injured. Surprisingly, it seems the power plant and the hospital...
Read more →Chernobyl- Pripyat Post Office
Throughout Pripyat there are a number of amazing murals and public art works. I had a short list of murals that I wanted to photograph during my trip. A couple afternoons during downtime we would visit the center of Pripyat and wander to so...
Read more →Chernobyl- Reactor 4 Vent Stack
One afternoon we visited the small memorial in the parking lot next to reactor 4. This is about as close as visitors can get to the actual site of the accident unless they are given special permission to cross the fence and go inside the fa...
Read more →Chernobyl-Jupiter Factory
"Don't go in the basement!" It sounded like the start of a horror movie, but it was the start of a great couple hours of abandoned photography. The Jupiter factory was high on my list of places to photograph during my trip to the exclusion...
Read more →Chernobyl- Crane Reflection
My guide and translator was off to try and climb the Duga antenna so I was alone with our government escort. His main instruction was "no climbing" which is a shame because some of the cranes in the harbor had some very interesting cockpits...
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