Monday, April 25, 2011

The 'Children of Chernobyl', after 25 years in the shots the photographer Valerio Contini

In Minsk there is a cutting-edge pediatric cancer hospital. The families are from all parts of Russia to ensure the best care for their children. Stories differ, but the same disease: cancer. They are the "children of Chernobyl, 25 years after the nuclear disaster in Ukraine. On the occasion of the anniversary, tomorrow, the photographer Valerio Contini Sardinian has uoi is shot: the faces and stories of children admitted to the 'Borovliany'.

Doctors at the center know that their illnesses are directly dependent nuclear accident of 1986, "but nobody ever you put it in writing", he answered Contini. According to official estimates of 'Chernobyl Forum', 65 are confirmed dead, while over 80 years promises a budget of more than 4 thousand people with leukemia and cancer.

A low estimate according to other sources, who report 270 thousand attributable to the disaster victims. Among these, many children, including those in the shots of Contini. How Anghelina that "never smiles, does not talk much and do not want anyone to consider whether and sick," says the photographer.

Or Vitaly, a Ukrainian boy who "was little in the Gomel region (the most affected by radiation) to spend summer in my grandmother's house." Vitaly A lot of children as the government has refused to bureaucratic problems the status of children of Chernobyl. " A document that allows families to obtain discounts on essential goods or exemption for tickets for public transport.

Photo: Posing in front of the Italian flag tied to the memory of a trip to Chernobyl Project Copyright © Valerio Valerio Contini Contini Viewing report

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