Brock
Great site - nice pics....but what happened to that dolly, where is she now?
Lady Croft
I was just looking at the World News for today August 2010 and the headline is that the Russians are beginning to fill the Iranian nuclear reactor with uranium(U) this weekend. This reactor is built with parts obtained mainly on a black market since the nuclear proliferation of Iran is prohibited with sanctions from the United Nations. Some of the parts are as old as parts that would have been in Reactor 1 at Chernobyl. The half life of U-238 is about 4.4 billion years and U-235 about 700 million years the world should be prepared that this has the makings of another disaster not to mention other factors of the middle east that could also complicate the situation. Any thing can change in any given second and have reaching effects an unimaginable time span. "I now know that two things are infinte, the universe and human stupidy and I am not so sure about the universe" Albert Einstein, after the atomic bomb was deployed on Japan. Your site is well done and too few eyes have really seen what nuclear power regardles of what it is created for can offer.
darryl calgary canada
having grown up in a family who worked in nuclear power plants in Ontario this dissaster always stuck in my mind thank you putting yourself at risk so the rest of us can see the dangers my deepest sympathy to those who were lost during and after this tragic page in history least we never forget
Mihail Popescu
Just exceptional photos - I wish I was there with you.
Maria S
amazing photos! beautiful and very sad at the same time.
i hope to visit pripyat one day. ...big thank you for creator(s) of tihs page. respect!
keep up with good work
Brad Stuckey
Your website is amazing: not just the photos, but the subject-matter and the courage you display by visiting. I am an amateur shutterbug who has always been fascinated by the vestiges of the Soviet Union (I am in the Army right now, and I grew up in a military family, so that may be why)and wish I were able to visit these places...maybe one day. In the meantime I will enjoy your site. Wonderful! Thank you!
Derek
incredible photos and story, I was just researching chernobyl out of my own personal curiosity, and found your website to be a rich source of photos and information. As a photographer myself, I have to say that your pictures are incredible and haunting, and thank you for sharing your experiences with the world!
Hanbry
Wow....awesome
Barry / England
I have been researching, and in general a great interest of Chernobyl and the surrounding area's affected.
Such a magnificent site and a rich source of photo's I have never seen before.
Deepest thanks and respect for the creator(s) of this site.
James-Canada
This is the most amazing site I have found detailing The Zone.
Thank-you for sharing your experiances and knowledge.
Liz - East Coast USA
Great Site! The story was informative and filled in some informational gaps I had about the disaster. The pictures were wonderful and the film was a powerful reminder of what can happen when our technology gets away from us (just like the disaster in the Gulf right now). Keep up the good work as this story Must be retold. "Those who forget the past, tend to repeat it"!
Jelte
Great pictures and my deepest respect for all those who were victims of this disaster.
I want to go there to for quiet a while but do you get a tour, or can you walk by yourself through the city (Pripyat) (with or without a guide)
Site, story's and pictures ect. 10/10 (Y), keep up the good work. :-)
Jelte
Great pictures and my deepest respect for all those who were victims of this disaster.
I want to go there to for quiet a while but do you get a tour, or can you walk by yourself through the city (Pripyat) (with or without a guide)
Site, story's and pictures ect. 10/10 (Y), keep up the good work. :-)
travis
Amazing photos man. completly unbeleivable. erything ive read and seen about this town. has juss been sumed up by completly amazing photos.
Patrik
Extremly nice pictures! Great composition and it truly conveys the eerieness of the location. Being an amateur photographer I can only with my best pictures even nudge the ones you have taken!
Jake
this site in awesome, i am very jealous you were able to visit and stay in such a desolate, incredible and tragic part of the world (despite the crap sounding meals)
some great pictures, thankyou very much for sharing them with a public that would otherwise be non the wiser :)
Donne and David Morgan
Dear Thierry
Thank you so much for not only the frighteningly beautiful photographs but also the very easy to understand facts re Chernobyl and your own stories of the 2 visits you have made....fascinating. I was linked to this site by Neil Lewis... an urban explorer friend in UK... we know him because he is married to a very good friend's daughter.. :-) I shall also display your link on my own FB page as am sure many other people will find these trips of yours incredibly informative.
Regards Donne Morgan Victoria Australia
Odysseus
Great work!
Cameron C
Brilliant photos!
Can I ask what font is used for the reactor4.be logo?
Marcel
Absolutely great pictures!
Martin Petersen
Brilliant pictures! I had to stop several times and think about what happened on that exact spot all those years ago, it was really food for thought!
Tobias
Very very nice website and exciting photos. stay tuned and regards from germany!
Please leave a comment in our guestbook.
Tobias
alexis
Wonderful pictures, the treatment returns the place marvelous. I'll like to make a tour on the big wheel!
Jackie
What a wonderful site! Your pictures and your writing a great. I hope one day to visit in and around Chernobyl. Thanks again for sharing.
Ashley
Thank you so much for sharing your expeirance with me and everyone else!! your photo's are amazing and your journals from both of your trips are very descriptive!!! i just recently had the chance to learn about Chernobly and i am happy to have come across your wedsite! thanks again!!
Ada
Good evening! I am from Ukraine and the tragedy of Chernobyl is very near my heart. Because roots of my family are descended from Prypyat. 23 years ago my grandma and grandpa, who worked in the Chernobyl APP, with 2 children (my mom, who was 16 years old and my uncle, 9 years old) left this town forever. Today our family lives on the south of Ukraine. But despite the huge stretch of time, wich separates us from the events of 1986, we never forget about what happened... even for a minute. R.I.P. once evergreen, bustling and hospitable town!
P.S.
На Чорнобиль журавлі летіли,
З вирію вертались на весні.
Як сніжниця попелище біле
Зозвівалось в рідній стороні.
Там згоріли гнізда і гніздечка,
Поржавіла хвоя і трава,
Журавлина крихітна вервечка
Напиналась, наче тятева.
Не було ні стогону, ні крику,
Тільки пошум виморених крил.
Журавлі несли печаль велику,
Наче тінь невидимих могил.
Не спинились птиці на кордоні,
Де всякає атом у пісок
І дивився батько з під долоні,
І ридала мати в небеса.
GAMBIT
Chernobyl, terrible and beautiful, like a madman's lullabye.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful photographs with the world!
We cannot allow what happened here to be forgotten.
Marcin
different world...
Martin
Amazing, really great photos, that says so much. Thank you for this webpage.
Creeper
Fantastic work.
Your photos are keeping the past real. ;)
I am an explo myself but unfortunately never left Germany that far - well, mainly because there's no one who would join my trip.^^
Please, keep on doing that.
You rock ;)
neopassang
i think you have to protect yourself there! much plutonium, you can't find it with your dosimeter, walking in pripiat and around without mask and gloves for 5 days is dangerous.
but you're work is nice
Rüdiger Ypsilon
WOW even more amazing photos than 2008. This time you were even on one of those boats, I think I would be to much scared to step on it, always afraid of falling in the to (possibly) radioactive water ^^
One day I will visit Prypjat too. I'm saving my money since last year and one day I will have enough so I can afford the trip.
Beth
Love your photos, amazing work, great impressions. Feels like going back in time. Those pictures tells more than words can describe..
I'm studying soviet history and Chernobyl's story was always interesting to me. And your photos probably is the best I've ever seen :)
Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Greetings from Latvia, Beth.
Zwijntje
I will never forget our special Chernobyltrip we've made togheter in 2008. The new pictures are just amazing! Especially those of the dolls. Your impressions are really great because they just show the real impact from the explosion and desolation in Pripyat and Chernobyl. They keep on tellling us stories we've never seen...
Keep up the good work!
Yours forever, zwijntje ;-)
Randolf
very beautiful work!
I'm impressed! The film and the music is also amazing!
Thanks for this!
leichenteilchen
Awesome! Thanks for sharing these great impressions with us. This is probably the best collection about chernobyl and everything arround it, I spent hours browsing through these amazing pictures.
URG
Amazing photo and story ( trip 2009). Some of the best pictures Chernobyl I've ever seen.
Ŗivẹt
You work is absolutely breathtaking. Thank you so much for the site.
jk
Thanks for sharing your story and photos with us, who may never be able to visit the place in person. I find this all very interesting, it seems I want to know more and more about Pripyat and other surroundings of Chernobyl.
Foantje
very cool report and story, I like it a Lott
And defiantly cool to see your from bruges me too ;).
Kevin
amazing website, the best i've ever seen about a trip to chernobyl and pripyat. one day, i hope to make a trip there and see it. hopefully before they tear it all down.
Fernando Felix
IMAGENES INCREIBLES DE CHERNOBYL, ES MI SUEÑO IR PARA HAYA UN DIA Y TOMAR DEMASIADAS FOTOS!!! ESPERO Y NO MOLESTE MI ESPAÑOL, SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO!!
Justin
Wow! What a website. Thanks for capturing so vividly in words and pictures what must be one of the most fascinating places on Earth.
Jude Picknell
I had the privilege to visit the Chernobyl plant and the exclusion zone while staying in Ukraine last week. It was deeply moving, epecially the monuments to the men who gave their lives in extinguishing the reactor fire and building the sarcophogus - truly "the men who saved the world". The eeriest thing about the whole area was the almost deafening silence of what once had been a busy town, thronging with life.
A moral tale of official negligence and secrecy, and the extraordinary courage and dignity of "ordinary" people.
Christopher
Your website is phenominal, I really enjoy the erie and somber feelings you capture with your photography. cheers.
-Chris
Ben Clark
im from australia and the whole chornobyl thing is very sadning to me im a bit in the dark about what exactly happen i know that the #4 Reactor exploded but how? and why? feel free to email me about any info i can find my email is ford_gtho87@hotmail and please in the subject say its about chornobyl thanks from australia
adam
great web site and wonderful pictures.....greetings from poland
Neko
I was wandering through google when I found abandoned places website, which lead me to the links page, now all day I have been going "I wish there was some of Chernobyl" I ended up here. If anything can remind us that humans fail and the consequences can last years and years, it's Chernobyl. Thank you for a rare glimpse into the aftermath, the buildings that still stand a reminder to the strength humans can have. Building structures that can last decades but not forever. I hope that long after these zones have been reclaimed by nature we will continue to remember and learn from past mistakes.
Jen
Alluring and chilling, truly magnificent. I just spent hours looking at the photographs, one more beautiful than the next. Greatly appreciated, much thanks from Pittsburgh, PA. USA
Chris
great, amazing, best photos I've ever seen from this location!
Andrew
Wow, breath taking photos... you have captured a true picture of a strange desolate city, amazing to think the city was built for families and children but was then the scene of such a great disaster.
Brilliant work thank you for sharing your insight
jaosn
outstanding and beautiful photos! thank you for entering a potentially dangerous area to bring the world all this. the story was clear and captivating. hope to see more from you!
Firdaus
You have a very nice set collection of this picture.
Steve
Thierry,
What an incredible formulation of the aftermath of Chernobyl..brilliant..you should write a book. Thank you from Falmouth,Ma.USA
Luc Van Hoecke
Schitterend ! Hoe heb je in godsnaam je partner hiertoe overtuigd gekregen ? Ik ben jaloers, ik geef het toe...
Dimiter
Bravo, fantastic collection. I like abandoned buildings. If you are interested in such art you can visit Bulgaria where there are many abandoned buildings and factories from the communist time. You can some photos of one of the biggest communist factories Kremikovtzi which buildings are placed on 2000 hectares in this article: http://e-vestnik.bg/6270
Izabella
Amazing!!! Great photos, story and web site. i spent my whole evening reading the history and your story whitch is fab.
well done and all the best for the future.waiting to see and hear some more amazing story's from you.
Oyun indir
Thanks for great photos.And the site has nice design.
Fatroll
Thanks, great photos!
When did you go there?
Irmmin-Rose
Amazing, I'm speechless. You take wonderful pictures. Personally, I always think of Chernobyl as a beautiful place. Your photographs are reminders that humans make irreversible mistakes.
Jelle
Heel knappe foto's en een mooi avontuur! Ik ben zelf nog maar net begonnen met fotografie maar eens ik wat meer ervaring heb wil ik ook wel eens naar Chernobyl.
Jekyll
Nice place :) i believe 'Cockney John' is referring to Elena!
i would like to visit Chernobyl at some point ;)
Jekyll
Cockney John
Wow
At home sunday morning searching for normal stuff, funnies etc then came across a site about a lady who had motorcycled through Chernobyl. Found this shortly after.
What an amazing, chilling and sad documentation of a 'normal' area - almost unknown in the UK, which in a few hours became what it is today, and will be for long after my childrens, childrens, children have passed.
Completely humbled at the site!
Star
Absolutely amazing site, some of the best photos I've seen. I've been fascinated by how quickly nature has reclaimed the area, 23 years really isn't that long. Thank you for sharing these. Absolutely incredible stuff.
Susie
Thank you very much for working on this project. I just spent my entire evening reading your story and looking at your pictures. Amazing!!!
Laura; aka: Anonymous
I just love your photo's and story. You really captured the sadness and tragedy of Chernobyl in your photographs. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
doro
Hello, thank you for sharing this experience.
I was a little closer to the zone back then - 1986 hit Bucharest with an earthquake and Chernobyl.
Our regime wouldn't want to inform or protect the population with Iodine tablets. So that we should not panic or ask for anything. Even after the whole world knew what had happened, we were told not to worry and go on taking baths in the Black Sea and eat the veggies. It had rained in time for the cloud travelling a few hundred kilometres from East to reach our soils, it was fine weather during those weeks of May.
I allowed myself to mention you on my site.
Keep up the good work!
Randy
My girlfriend and I traveled from the US to the zone in sept of 2007, we have many photos and HD video of the day we spent there that have never been posted to the web, one special structure we requested to see was the greenhouse on the back side of pripyat, there are very few photos of this on the web, we took about 20 pictures and made HD video of the greenhouse that have never been seen.
We enjoy your web site and the story about your ride out to the zone (ours was about the same minus the sleeping driver), we hope to return to the area for a 2 day stay in 2010 or 2011, we have had no health side effects from the visit and know our exposure to radiation was more on the 12 hour plane ride at 40,000 ft each way where the giger counter was singing at 5.0 micro SV the whole time.
Most people do not know that air travel produces elevated radiation levels.
Take care
baggyUK
well being a 19 year old man in 1986 i remember the chernobyl story very well
as for the infomation liz at the time they didnt realise the scale of the disaster as mentioned but also there was a long history of the russian goverment not wanting to talk about anything that had happened in their country
it was a disaster that should never have happened but on that day it did
REMEMBER THE DEAD
R.I.P
Liz, South Carolina USA
As a lover of all places abandoned, I was particularly moved by your tour of Chernobyl. Thank you, brave souls, for venturing where most of us would not dare. I support nuclear power but, Chernobyl lies as a grim reminder that man must respect the awesome power of our Earth and our harness of it. God Bless you both- many, many more happy ventures to you!
Yann
Very, very nice pictures! Thank you for sharing your experience! Bravo!
Tony
Awesome pictures!
Good job on bringing the death-sense to life!
Dave
Love this site, makes you think about what strange things go on in the world, and makes u wonder if theres anything else to the stories that we dont see in the pictures.
keep up the good work
dave
Manouch
Such great pictures for a place that few went !!
Great stuff man and respect !!
Lee Fitzgerald
It's rare for me to stop at a website and look at ALL it offers, however I couldn't come away without telling you that I looked at and read pretty much everything, great photos and a great read..thank you for sharing with the world!
Nathan B
Thanks for the great Read. Plan to make the adventure myself sometime soon. Awesome stuff and great pics. :)
Annie
Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I really like the story as much as the photos too.
Your work is great!
guest
Thanks for this awesome site and your report of this trip...
I would go there myself but if the radiation wouldn't kill me my wife certainly would ;)
Stefan
Amazing pictures! I can't wait for my trip to the "zone" this year..
Greetings from germany,
Stefan
Lee Vervoort
This is a great site with well taken photos. As a fan of abandoned areas and such history related subjects, this one takes the cake. Good job.
Smurf
Just looked at some more of your site and I have to say that it is very well done. Having just got back from the Zone myself I can say that your site captures the feel and the essence of it very well. Thanks for sharing your experience :) I'm hoping to go back in the summer - it was minus 16 when we were there... See you back in "the zone"...
Liz
Wonderful site.
I was 13 at the time Rector 4 exploded, and remember seeing it on the news.
After watching several documentries, I still find it hard to believe there was such a cover up as to what could and did go wrong.
Well done for being so brave and taking such wonderful photos.
A real eye opener. Thank you.
sk8er boy
Hey, thanks for such interesting site.
I'm from Russia and i have seen much russian and ukranian sites about Chernobyl. Yours is the impressing one
Rod Serling
I loved the "our story" section. Very detailed and interesting how things work there now. Thank you for this site!
uXplorer
Interessante verslaglegging van jullie belevenissen naar en te chernobyl en ...Great shots.
Succes bij de volgende projecten.
Met vriendelijke groet,
uXplorer
Sebastian
awesome site. im born 1986 so its very interesting for me. i wasnt affected by the accident but a lot kids were. very nice pictures. your story reminds me of that woman who was allowed to drive through chernobyl with her motorbike. i wish i could go there, too but its not that easy i guess.
greetings from germany. excuse my grammar :)
cat
Hello !
I came across your site on StumbleUpon.com and was immediately interested in reading your story and viewing all of the fantastic photos.
I was wondering, as I finished seeing and reading all the information, if you could tell me if you, or any of your party have had any adverse effects from your visit there?
And, additionally, I would surmise that the forbidden zone and, actually all the irradiated areas, will remain contaminated forever? i was just wondering.
I am not well-versed on the subject of radiation.
Thank you for taking me via the internet to this location.
I appreciate the chance to see it!
cat
Jose Manuel
Hello, I'm Jose Manuel Carranza ... I write from Nicaragua. The history of this city to hit me while I am very interested in knowing more about it, apart from being a ghost town is a beautiful city, I like to be able to know some day, I wish her luck friend JM
ONAGER
Probably a bad comarison, but Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare capturned pripyat PERFECTLY. But, in all actuallty, its a very sad what happened here. the vegitation and animals growing up is eerie, and i cant stop learning about chernobyl. its probably the most interesting neclear disaster ive seen yet, not mentioning the most devestating. Awesome job with the site. Photos were amazing, and give out awesome messages. Great job guys, keep up the great work
Wesley
Thanks for sharing buddy!
i really appreaciated all the efforts that you've taken in the UE and to sharing all the wonderful imagines for us,keep moving buddy.
China Wesley
Pascal
Freaking awesome photos!! Since I first saw those chernobyl-photos from the Kidd of Speed-Site (maybe you know it?), I beacme totally fascinated in places of beauty and decay. And hell, your photos are just... awesome... hilarious... outstanding!! I can't find the right words for it.
Keep up the good work!!
craig wykes (LennyE4EVO)
Pics are mind blowing mate! What a place, after auschwitz this place is defo on my list, totally fascinating. What happened here is beyond belief.
Holly
Found you from 28days :)
I want the doll its fantastic, I love the layout of the website and the indepth storys its fantastic. I am quite jelouse i would love to go :)
Mr Butler
Very interesting :)
Joe
Found my way here from 28dayslater.
What a fantastic site. just looking at some of your photos sends a shiver down the spine. This has to be one of them must visit places !!!
Keep up the good work
Joe
Bill O Reilly
A very nice website !! Very well Done
Laurence
Great pictures !
I'm preparing a trip to Pripyat with two friends of mine. Really looking forward to seeing this place myself :)
Vivo
I've enjoyed looking at your Chernobyl pictures. They are fantastic and probably the best I've seen. I went in April to photograph it but we were limited to what we could enter building wise. You've really captured the essence of the place.
I hope to return next year at some point. If you are into abandonments then Pripyat is the Holy Grail really.
Marika
Proficiat voor de mooie website! Ben zelf niet verder geraakt dan het Tshernobyl Museum in Kyiv, heb al zoveel gelezen over de kernramp, verhalen van familie en kenissen gehoord en toch met interesse je reisbeschrijving gelezen.
Daniel
Respect to your works about chernobyl. Great shots, great story about.
Daniel
Alex
I'm jealous Thierry :) sounds like a great trip. Nice shots! Cheers!
NeQo
Fantastic orgasmic story and dito pictures T.
I just love the way you tell this fantastic adventure and i guess you lived the urbexers dream there.
Reespect!
Maudemoiselle
Hallo Thierry,
Ben er zelf ook geweest (sept 2008) het was voor mij weer zo herkenbaar!
ik vind dat je een "mooie" impressie van dit gebied hebt weergegeven door middel van je prachtige foto's.
Top!
Gr. Maudemoiselle.hyves.nl (Foto's o.a. Tjernoby 2008)
Aart Jan
Very impressive your work to show he disaster of this place. Respect for you and your girlfriend. Also the story is great. Thanks.
Aart.
Bob
This is an amazing site you've put together here - your writing and photos are fantastic. I linked here from opacity.us, and thank you for taking the time to put this incredible work together...
anne parker
far out, these pictures are amazing. it really humanizes the Chernobyl meltdown. the pictures of the ferris wheel really touched me, as well as many of the photos of doll's and pictures of the families relatives.
it makes me wonder if they died happy or sad, or in fear.
René
Great website.
Very impressive shots.
Gr
René
Nephilim
Great site!
Sarah
Yoow, alweer prachtige foto's op je nieuwe site! vooral die groothoekfoto's zijn indrukwekkend. veel komt me bekend voor van op Call of Duty 4 (xbox360) dat zich ook afspeelt in Pripyat :p Meer, meer!
Bart
Great trip man!
Want to go there, but a bit afraid fot my health...
Gr,
Bart
A.
Nice site. I have been to Chernobyl Zone one month after you and
will return in summer 2009...
Cyber
Very awesome...great site with amazing photos! Keep up the good work!
Jude
Great site! Amazing shots and the site itself is fast to browse through. Good job!
Fako
Finally on the www !
Good job and work T
Pics are as usual verrrrrry nice...
RESPECT !
Marcel
Just awesome...
Love your pictures and your story.
Great that some people are really into exploration!
Tom Roelofs
Finally launched! Nice site, but you know that already ;)
Zwijntje
Kepje,
ik vond het echt een fantastische ervaring om samen met jou in tjerno te zijn. Een tripje om nooit te vergeten! Je site ziet er alweer fantastisch uit, de foto's zijn gewoonweg prachtig. 't Is echt genieten van elk nieuw beeld dat jij voor eeuwig vastlegt.
zwijntje
Henk
so, you made it to chernobyl, dude! wow and wow again !
100 orgasms every step you take ? same here looking at your photos. great work, show us more !
H.
Thierry
After many months of hard work this website is finally online so you can start leaving your thoughts about this all in this guestbook. ;-)
Enjoy your stay and do not hesitate to come back!
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