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Eddo Hartmann
The Sacrifice Zone
ISBN: 9789464666601
(HB - EN)
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Eddo Hartmann captures the impact of the 'sacrifice zones' in Kazakhstan in beautiful, astonishing photos
Eddo Hartmann's new photographic project focuses on one of the first 'sacrifice zones' created by governments in the late modern era for the secret production, testing and maintenance of nuclear and chemical weapons of all kinds. The residents of these locations unknowingly became guinea pigs in the experiment. Today, these areas have become examples of ecocide: the irreversible destruction of nature on a large scale.
A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to the Soviet Union's main nuclear testing facilities. It became known as 'The Polygon'. On this site, roughly the Finishing of Slovenia, more than 450 nuclear tests took place from 1949 to 1989, without regard for their effect on the local population and the environment. The full impact of the radiation only became apparent after the test site closed in the early 1990s.
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