2nd place
silver star award
Anders Jørgensen
norway
title
04.26.1986
One of the biggest and worst nuclear accidents in the world happens in Chernobyl.
Myself was only 11 year and couldn’t understand what really happened.
33 years later I travel twice to the exclusion zone to see how the area looks like after an accident like this, and to experience the abounded citys.
There are abounded «ghost» citys, where no people lives, the buildings are left in decay, but still there are toys and school materials laying around, and leftovers from store are trown around.
But there are also places where people choose to move back and to continue their life.
These are the scenes I choose to use as my motiv.
The faded paint, the broken windows and the traces of an society becomes my pictures.
The picture could be made an complete different place, where the society is gone of other reasons, but my fascination took me to Chernobyl to explore myself how it is looks today, and to explore the history from there.
After growing up in northern part of Norway where trees are absent in the artic environment I startet to get facinated by the ”nature” in the city that apeers between concrete and architecture. Then I started my project "Urban nature". Lately I'm working on my newest projects that's combine decay and nature, called «Most of the time we are somewhere else»
More of my work can be seen on www.osloante.com or at instagram: osloante_photography and osloante
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entry description
04.26.1986One of the biggest and worst nuclear accidents in the world happens in Chernobyl.
Myself was only 11 year and couldn’t understand what really happened.
33 years later I travel twice to the exclusion zone to see how the area looks like after an accident like this, and to experience the abounded citys.
There are abounded «ghost» citys, where no people lives, the buildings are left in decay, but still there are toys and school materials laying around, and leftovers from store are trown around.
But there are also places where people choose to move back and to continue their life.
These are the scenes I choose to use as my motiv.
The faded paint, the broken windows and the traces of an society becomes my pictures.
The picture could be made an complete different place, where the society is gone of other reasons, but my fascination took me to Chernobyl to explore myself how it is looks today, and to explore the history from there.
about the photographer
I´m 48 year old living in Oslo Norway, finish my photo education in 2005 at Robert Meyer Kunsthøgskole.After growing up in northern part of Norway where trees are absent in the artic environment I startet to get facinated by the ”nature” in the city that apeers between concrete and architecture. Then I started my project "Urban nature". Lately I'm working on my newest projects that's combine decay and nature, called «Most of the time we are somewhere else»
More of my work can be seen on www.osloante.com or at instagram: osloante_photography and osloante
back to gallery