Walthamstow, London
These are the high points around Tehran (Teheran) which are called Bam-e-Tehran (The Roof of Tehran), where you can see all over Tehran. Tehran is the largest city in the Middle East and is the most populated city in South Western Asia with a population of 7.5 million and approximately 15 million in Greater Tehran. Milad Tower is just visible at the far right of the frame.
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His and hers door knockers, Yazd, Iran. The masculine door knocker is rigid and heavy that makes a strong sound. People inside the house wil be informed that a man is behind the door. The feminine door knocker is curly and ring like and makes a lighter sound. It informs the people inside the house that a woman is behind the door. This system is in place due to the Islamic custom that women should be private from men except their intimate ones.
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Gates from the cloisters of All Souls college cast shadows on Radcliffe Square, Oxford. This might be a rare moment when the the quod: that great British architectural invention of exclusion, offers a pubic gesture. All souls is a graduate college and is made up of top finalists from the rest of the university from which two are chosen each year.
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When reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986 the result was the worst nuclear accident in history. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were severely contaminated, requiring the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people.
Pripyat, 1km from the reactor, was designed as an exemplar of Soviet planning for the 50,000 people who worked at the power plant. A funfair, with bumper cars and Ferris wheel, was due to open two days after the reactor exploded.
These photographs, inspired by Robert Polidori’s earlier images of Chernobyl, were shot in 2007 over 5 hours, apparently the safe period of exposure. Although a Geiger counter was carried in case of localised high emissions, certain areas of vegetation which attract a higher concentration of radiation were avoided.
The physical devastation stems from looting and gradual building collapse, not from the explosion. Over the last ten years people have intruded regularly into the military exclusion zone, stealing everything from irradiated toilet seats to the marble cladding from hotel walls. Photographs of the town capture a memory of three traumas: the invisible radiation, the visible looting and the gradual collapse of a ghost town.
Hotel Polissia Terrace, Pripyat, Giclee Print, 50×33cm, Edition of 25 + 1 A/P
Pripyat, Chernobyl Exhibition
Pripyat: 21 Years After Chernobyl, photographs by Quintin Lake’ is on show at the Architectural Association Photo Library from Monday 12 May to Friday 6th June 2008, 10.00am to 6.00pm
Architectural Association Photo Library , 37 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
Pripyat, Chernobyl Limited Edition Prints
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007
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Concert hall with water damaged soviet relief sculpture and piano, Pripyat, Chernobyl
The looted seating area in the Palace of Culture theatre, Pripyat
Palace of Culture Theatre prop room with paintings of Lenin and dignitaries, Pripyat (Pripiat), Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007
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Exercise books, Pripyat, Chernobyl Ghost town
Gas masks, Pripyat
Light shines across climbing bars and broken basketball hoop in a gymnasium. Pripyat, Chernobyl Excusion Zone
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007
Geometry & Silence 