Angie
Fernandez
October
3, 2011
Chernobyl
My
eyes filled with tears when I looked at Paul Fusco website; I felt sadness and sorrow
by seeing how the Chernobyl disaster ruined many children’s life. Photographer
Paul Fusco took a little of his time to show the world the effects of the
nuclear meltdown that happened in Ukraine, Chernobyl; he made this project
called The Chernobyl Legacy. In his website,
we can see many different pictures of people who survived the incident. Their
children were sadly born with physical and mental defects and diseases and
their parents abandoned them in asylums due to lack of money-they are orphans.
Paul Fusco relates the story in an attempt to reach people’s hearts by revealing
a chapter in history buried in the memories of Ukrainians and showing the
terrible effects that nuclear power is capable of.
In Paul Fusco’s project, you can observe different
black-and-white pictures showing the diverse anomalies of the Chernobyl legacy:
there are children with cancer, with parts of their organs outside their bodies;
there is this girl who has her kidneys in the exterior of her body forming a
big tumor, and a boy with his brain outside his head. You can also look at a
time line showing what really happened with Chernobyl; it explains how this
could have been prevented. And then, you can read different thoughts of people
from the area who gloomily blame scientist for this tragedy.
In this project, you can look at these
disturbing pictures, ones that you will never forget. He shows children not
being able to walk so they roll on the floor all day; he also shows and tells
how the area has been left behind, around 50,000 people left; when I first
looked at those pictures, I wished nuclear power had never existed. I believe
everybody should know about what happened in Chernobyl: children with
deformities, disease, and cancer. People have little resources to support their
children; thus, they are being abandoned by their parents and of course lots of
them die. Paul Fusco gives as much detail as one would wish to hear, he tells
his audience what the world has forgotten.
In
conclusion, this site has good information available to everyone; people just
need to have the courage and initiative to learn more about the topic; though
it is hard to listen to all those stories and look at those pictures. Paul
Fusco’s project has information that not even history books have, it contains
an important piece of human history, one that should be out there, and one that
everyone should know of so it will never happen again.
