Chernobyl Exclusion Zone | Abandoned Places
This series presents a fragment of a larger photographic project exploring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Shot in colour, the images offer an intimate and unflinching look at the abandoned places scattered throughout the zone—homes, schools, cultural centres, vehicles, and forgotten personal objects. Far from the sensational, the photographs focus on atmosphere, detail, and the quiet presence of absence. Faded colors, peeling paint, overgrown thresholds, and dust-covered artifacts tell stories of daily life abruptly interrupted. The natural light reveals soft hues and unexpected beauty in decay, while the human traces—drawings, clothing, toys—evoke a sense of both familiarity and loss. This series is less about catastrophe and more about the passage of time. Abandoned Places reflects on memory, silence, and the surreal coexistence of manmade space and nature slowly reclaiming it. Through colour, the images remain grounded in the real—preserving not just the visual, but the emotional landscape of what was left behind.