Igor Kostin
(b.1936 in Georgia) has lived since the 1960s in Kiev. He took the first photo of the exploded reactor in Chernobyl on the night of 26 April 1986. Since then, Kostin has documented the medical, social, and political consequences of the catastrophe.
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Igor Kostin on his Chernobyl photos
Igor Kostin spent seventeen years photographing the visible and invisible consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Here he talks about his life work. [more]





