[Leica] Magnum documentary on Chernobyl

[piers at hemy.org (Piers Hemy)]

Quite so, Marty - I judged that the exposure arising from a day-trip was
rather less than my daughter had been exposed to during five years in
Aberdeen. But I only went once, with images taken with off-topic equipment
here:

http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/phemy/album/32054?p=1 

In some ways a visit to Pripyat is akin to a time machine, re-visiting a
country which ceased to exist in 1990 (but I haven't been to Minsk since
1970). There are signs of former "life" in Pripyat which are very familiar
to anyone with a memory of the USSR, but completely alien to modern-day
Ukraine. 

The tourist visits to the exclusion zone are easily arranged in Kyiv, always
accompanied by guides who appear to know where not to venture, all under the
pretext of research, and seem to take care to avoid any contamination being
brought out from the zone.

As far as I know the lady on the motor bike was indeed just another tourist,
albeit with a bit of imagination.

Piers

PS thanks for your earlier views of St P and Kizhi - the latter is one place
I would have liked to have seen. One day, maybe.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Marty
Deveney
Sent: 22 November 2010 10:54
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum documentary on Chernobyl

I've been in there twice Ted.  It's not much more dangerous in terms of
radiation exposure than spending a lot of time on high altitude aircraft.  I
met a couple of the people who live in there who refused to leave; while
some have died others seem fine.  The health risks associated with radiation
exposure are a lot more complicated than first thought.

Marty


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM,  <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> In 1992 while shooting the ?medical documentary on Russian doctors, 
> then the Chernobyl Children. I asked if it were possible for me and a 
> guide to go to Pripyat? When I asked the person the immediate response 
> was... "You must be crazy, do you wish to die a horrible death? No one 
> is allowed as it's still so HOT humans are not allowed to enter."
>
> I'm quite surprised they now have guided tourist tours, amazing as I 
> wouldn't even think of ever doing that for at least an other 5 or
> 10,000 years.
>
> ted
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