Solargraphs from Chernobyl's exclusion zone

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Solargraphs from Chernobyl's exclusion zone
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Solargraphy is brutally simple: a beer-can pinhole camera, photographic paper, months of exposure. Budzynski's twist is placing them inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone, where the sun's arc gets traced over rooftops that haven't had a human in them since 1986. The process suits the subject perfectly. No digital workflow, no instant feedback, no control. Just chemistry and time doing their thing in one of the most contaminated places on earth. Worth a look if you've ever wanted to rethink what counts as a camera.

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