Chornobyl Graffiti

When we were at Chornobyl (Ukranian spelling, Chernobyl is the Russian) on Monday, Andy took some photos of graffiti that was on some of the buildings in the abandonded town of Pripyat.



Our guide told us they were the work of some Belarussian graffiti artists. I was intriged so had a look on google and found their web site. Apparently it was seven artists from Moscow, Minsk and Berlin who painted the graffiti.

I'm not going to judge if the graffiti is art, if it is any good, or even if it was appropriate to graffiti these buildings. The figures did, however, somehow make a sombre, deserted place feel even more empty and felt like ghosts of the people who had to leave 36 hours after the accident.







Visiting Chornobyl was an unsettling experience and whilst I am glad I went, it's not one that I'd wish to repeat.