Gerd Ludwig: 40 Years Photographing Chernobyl
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Gerd Ludwig has been photographing Chernobyl since 1993, a National Geographic assignment on Soviet-era pollution that stretched into a four-decade body of work. Amateur Photographer profiles the German-American photojournalist on the 40th anniversary of the disaster, with images shot as recently as 2026 inside the Exclusion Zone.
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