CHERNOBYL - Umbrage Books
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CHERNOBYL - Umbrage Books
CONTACT: Amy Deneson Umbrage Books 515 Canal Street #4 New York, NY 10013 (212)965-0197 ext. 2# fax (212)965-0276 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHERNOBYL CONFESSIONS OF A REPORTER Photographs by Igor Kostin New York, New York—Marking the twentieth anniversary of history’s greatest nuclear disaster, Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter is a timely description of its horrific and long lasting consequences. On April 26th, 1986, Reactor Number Four at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl exploded, releasing 400 times more radioactive matter than the bombing of Hiroshima. Igor Kostin, then a reporter for the Novosti Agency, took the very first photograph of the accident and endured massive radiation overexposure to document the disaster for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Over the next twenty years he continued to investigate its effects on the area's inhabitants and their environment. This never-before-seen photographic collection tells the incredible stories of liquidators, soldiers, scientists, workers and residents throughout Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Germany, Sweden, and France that have been socially, politically, and medically impacted by the catastrophe creating a global perspective of the tragedy. With the twentieth anniversary, Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter sparks debate over the health and sociological implications of current global energy policies. Cover: October 1986, Tatsenki, an evacuated village in the thirty-kilometer forbidden zone. A “liquidator” from the chemical team, in protective gear including a gas mask, exits an abandoned house with a pram. Igor Kostin can't remember what was inside. What's in this baby carriage? His loot? His tools? His sandwich? What a symbol! BOOK SPECS · · · · · Hardcover with jacket 7.5 x 10.5 inches $35.00 USD 240 pages 150 color and b&w photographs · ISBN: 1-884167-57-8 · June 2006 IGOR KOSTIN, born in Moldava in 1936, is a Laureate of the most distinguished international prizes, including five World Press Photo awards. A contributor to Time, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Liberation, and Stern, Kostin lives and works in Kiev, 50 kilometers from Chernobyl. UMBRAGE EDITIONS is a New York-based award-winning publisher and packager of provocative visual books, multimedia projects, and traveling exhibitions. Umbrage Editions creates content-rich products, bringing them from their initial conception to development and final production. Umbrage projects vary in subject matter from classic photojournalism to cutting-edge art, from pop culture to global human rights. For more information see our website www.umbragebooks.com Next page, clockwise from top right: A soldier erects a barricade outside an evacuated village, 60 kilometers from the power plant (1989). A team of the plant's personnel goes to work in an highly contaminated environment, to monitor and maintain the remaining three nuclear reactors. Red poppies grow wild in the forbidden zone. Even their color matches the signs that warn of the field’s contamination. A child shows the effects of radiation. One of the “recalcitrant”—they lived without electricity, without shops, and without medical help. Liquidators wearing chemical warfare protective gear, inappropriate for radiation, measure the radiation levels in a field for scientist to study the genetic mutation of plants (Summer 1986). IMAGE AVAILABILITY AND CREDITS The cover plus two images are available without charge for press promotion of Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter. Mandatory credit line: Photograph © 2004 Igor Kostin, from Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter (Umbrage, 2006). If you are interested in running more than two images or to obtain high-resolution images for reproduction, please contact Umbrage Editions T: (212) 965-0197 x2# F: (212) 965-0276, [email protected]. Information about each photograph is available upon request.
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