2006–2009 / Photography / Variable dimensions
Snapshots from video games that recreate the settings of Chernobyl and Pripyat.
A revisitation of the “places” where Igor Kostin risked his life to document the 1986 nuclear catastrophe.
The work may be read as a homage to the so-called “Legendary Man,” as named by The Washington Post, but it also resonates as a reverberation of visual exhaustion and the banality with which not only the photographic act itself but also the disaster, its aftermath, and the very notion of reality become distorted.