Ex utopia

Darmon Richter's book on Chernobyl is excellent and I have been using it for quite some time in a few projects on abandoned landscapes.

Chernobyl is now very much in the news with the current invasion of Ukraine and fears over the impact on a number of nuclear power stations including the one at Zaporizhzhia.

Darmon also has a website which is very much worth looking at.

EX UTOPIA is a website about wild, improbable, repurposed, haunted, frozen, contested, and disappearing places. 

Since 2011, it has been sharing long-form essays and photography from all manner of under- and un-reported places around the world: from ancient ritual sites to otherworldly architecture; to ghost towns, nuclear bunkers and breakaway republics.

At the moment it features an interview with Alexei Ananenko.