Inside Chernobyl: life goes on

May 5, 2009 at 10:48

In Slavutych, Lira Barbash is sixteen months old and entranced by feeding pigeons.

Michael Forster Rothbart is a freelance photographer working mostly in Wisconsin, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. He is the creator of the After Chernobyl documentary project. His photographs of modern-day Chernobyl and the surrounding area are currently exhibited in Shevchenko Park, Kyiv. The exhibition is on until May 8, 2009. For more information you can visit the photographer’s personal website: www.mfrphoto.com (Courtesy photos by author)