无人之境 | Nadav Kander

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NADAV KANDER traveled to the steppes of Kazakhstan four years ago to see the “closed cities” of the Soviet nuclear testing area, a network of cities all but invisible to outsiders until the arrival of Google Earth. The photographer ventured first to the town of Kurchatov---named for the physicist who developed the USSR's first nuclear bomb---where he found a guard at a gate. Kander, with help from a local contact, convinced the guard to let him pass, checked into the town's only guest house, and set about making photographs with his large plate camera. His haunting images of an eerily beautiful landscape raise questions about secrecy, transparency, and the universal human attraction to ruins.

“I like to photograph things that are quite difficult to look at, but in a beautiful way,” said Kander. “It’s something I keep doing and doing because it nourishes me. It makes the viewer uneasy and challenges your idea of what’s beautiful.” This is a theme Kander, who is based in London, explored brilliantly in Long River, his Prix Pictet-winning series about the Yangtze River. The closed cities series, Dust, is showing at the Flowers Gallery in London and in an iPhone app. His images also will be collected in a book to be released in November.

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also known as “The Polygon," outside Kurchatov was the Soviet Union's primary nuclear test site. More than 450 tests were conducted there between 1949 and 1989, all of them well within range of the town's residents. There was little official acknowledgement of the impact of those tests on residents or the environment until after the site was closed in 1991. Between 1996 and 2012, a team of Russian, Kazakh, and U.S. scientists worked together to secure the plutonium residue in the area. Still, Kander wore a Geiger counter while shooting to ensure that he avoided areas with the greatest radiation.




Priozersk I(军用住房)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk II(郁金香盛开)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk IX(在军事文化宫旁展示的导弹)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk X(文化之家)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk XIII(文化之家)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk十四世(我听说她曾经拿过桨)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Priozersk XVI(芦苇)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




1955年核爆炸专辑第1页哈萨克斯坦,2011年




多边形试验场(事件前)的Diorama,Kurchatov哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov附近的墓地哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov I(科学研究设施)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov II(倒塌的房子)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov III(技术领域)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov IV(电话交换)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov V(取暖厂)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov VII(骨灰化为灰烬)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




Kurchatov VIII(未知结构)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




拜科努尔发射场附近(火箭塔)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




咸海Diptych(海底)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




咸海一号(军官宿舍)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




咸海第三期(捕鱼拖网渔船)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




多边形核试验场IV哈萨克斯坦,2011年




多边形核试验场七哈萨克斯坦,2011年




多边形核试验场X(原子湖)哈萨克斯坦,2011年




多边形核试验场第十二(尘埃到尘埃)哈萨克斯坦,2011年






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