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  1. <i>The human cost of nuclear catastrophe</i>

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    <a

    href="http://zreportage.com/Meltdown/Meltdown_Results1.shtml">Photographs

    </a>by <a

    href="http://www.zreportage.com/WEARE/RobertKnothBIO.shtml">Robert

    Knoth</a>.</p>

    <p><a href="http://www.zreportage.com/meltdown/meltdown.doc">Stories

    </a>by Antoinette de Jong.</p>

     

    <p>

    For more than twenty years Chernobyl remains a synonym of the greatest

    contemporary danger. Scientists are trying to solve very complicated

    medical and ecological problems that faced the world after April 26,

    1986. At the same time the world community not only is interested to

    know how many victims there were, or were there any mutations

    possible, or will the sarcophagus endure. There exist many, not less

    important issues although they are less articulated. The matter

    concerns social and psychological aspects and identity issues for

    those who had to stand the Chernobyl tragedy. The exhibition

    Certificate No.000358. is dedicated to such a social and cultural

    understanding of an ecological disaster.</p>

     

    <p>

    The exhibition consists of photos made by Robert Knoth(who this year

    has obtained an honorary distinction on the World Press Photo �06

    contest in the category "Portrait") and stories, narrated by

    Antoinette de Jong. By means of word and photo they try to explain

    that �Chernobyl� has become synonymous for a contemporary person a

    painful problem. Not only for those who found themselves in the

    epicenter of event (e.g. Ukrainian residents) but for everyone who has

    to live nowadays. That�s why on the photos we can see not only

    Chernobyl but Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ural and Siberia. The exhibition is

    a complex view on the contemporary human being, remaining unprotected

    and facing global ecological changes. It is an attempt to explain that

    �Ecological disaster� � is not a local event happened in the past,

    that we can either remember or forget, but a situation relating to

    every modern human being.</p>

     

    <p>

    The images Robert Knoth took for the book Certificate No. 000358/ will

    be on exhibtion <a

    href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/chernobyl-deaths-180406/chernobyl-photo-exhibition-sch">worldwide</a>.</p>

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