Ukranian photojournalist Maxim Dondyuk has rescued 15,000 artifacts from villages in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, including letters, photographs, and film negatives.
Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, photographer Maxim Dondyuk began collecting their things.
In an email to CNN, Dondyuk describes the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as being"frozen in time" in the 1980s, after residents packed their necessities to evacuate from the radiation that was seeping into their towns. More than 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the worst impacted area after the nuclear reactor exploded, causing at least 30 deaths in the immediate aftermath. But thousands of cases of pediatric thyroid cancer in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in the years following have also been linked to the incident, according to the World Health Organization.
Over the course of five years, Dondyuk and his wife and studio manager Irina returned to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to extensively explore the region -- including a three-month expedition in the summer of 2021 during which they walked hundreds of miles through 20 resettled villages.
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