Babushka, Karabolka
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Babushka, Karabolka
On 29th September 1975 one of Russia's worst nuclear accidents happened in a secret laboratory in the closed city of Ozersk. Whilst Communist authorities evacuated Russian communities, they sent 1500 Tatar farmers from the village of
Karabolka to clear the area of radioactive waste. Many died of radiation-related diseases soon after the blast. Those that survived suffer ongoing health problems.
Motherland
May 2005
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0106
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/23 349 +3 +0 +0 +0 349.tif (1) 10:26:48
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/23 349 +3 +0 +0 +0 349.tif (1) 10:26:48
