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http://darkthirty.livejournal.com [darkthirty] I updated Wikipedia to include a link to the Swedish publisher of Elena Filatova's photographs from Chernobyl.

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http://ego.dunedan.com  Starting a Landslide in My Ego: Here are the links to her two photo essays about the Chernobyl disaster: Ghost Town and Land of the Wolves. Further Reading: -Elena Filatova -Chernobyl Disaster -Chernobyl”¦18 Years Later -Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos -Chernobyl: 20 years ago this month. (via Cosmos)

http://norenes5percent.blogspot.com  Norene's Five Percent: Wikipedia's page about Elena Filatova mentions that some of the photos may be staged to various extents, but also says that "all photographs now taken in the region by even the most consiencious photographer are to some extent 'set up' because props have been placed by previous photographers around the town." Regardless of the authenticity of the the journal content or the particular photos, I still got something from it. (via Cosmos)

[Btinternet.com] Inside The Chernobyl Nuclear Exclusion Zone: For Filatova, thisapparently meant two-wheeled trips into the heart of the dead zone, 130km north of herhometown of Kiev, gunning her black Kawasaki ZZR-1100 along the long-deserted roads there,weaving in and out of derelict roadblocks and taking pictures of what she saw....Combining her own contemporary pictures and short videos with olderphotographs and archive footage, Filatova created a powerful,personal story, annotated with comments in her own distinctive authorial voice, a mix ofunsentimental description, righteous indignation and unexpected flashes of poetry....

[Maisonbisson.com] MaisonBisson.com: The story still gets a lot of hits, and somebody pointed out a few related Wikipedia links about the accident, the ghost town, and the controversy about Elena Filatova, the author of everybody’s favorite online Chernobyl tour story.

[Ripples.typepad.com] Ripples: post-corporate adventures: April 2006: In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's biggest morning paper she was asked, "Why do you devote so much of your life to this catastrophe?"

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