Chernobyl - 20 Years After
(2nd prize in Czech Press Photo '05, category Nature and Environment)
photo by Vaclav Vasku
March - September '05
www.fotomat.cz
vaclav.vasku@ecn.cz

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Igor Kostin

The photographer who flew over the Chernobyl NPP on 1st day of the catastrophy and took the very first picture of the destroyed reactor. Kostin received 250 roentgens of radioactivity which is half of a letal dose and dedicated rest of his life to documenting the Chernobyl disaster, Photo by Vaclav Vasku, 31th March 2005.