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The following images are a testimony to the devastating effects caused by radioactive fallout after several years and are therefore suitable for an adult audience and emotional sensitivity.
Paul Fusco worked as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea, 1951-1953, prior to study photojournalism at Ohio University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1957. He then moved to New York City and began his career as a staff photographer with Look, where he remained until 1971.
In this role he made reports on important social issues in the United States, including the plight of destitute miners in Kentucky; Latino ghetto life in New York City; cultural experimentation in California; life African-American in the Mississippi Delta, religious proselytizing in the South and migrant workers. He has also worked in England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and fha made an extensive study of the Iron Curtain countries, from northern Finland to Iran.
Look, Fusco was approached Magnum Photos, becoming a partner in 1973 and a full member the following year. His photographs have been published in major American magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, as in other publications around the world.
Fusco moved to Mill Valley, California in the early 1980s to photograph the lives of the oppressed and those with alternative lifestyles . Among his latest subjects are people with AIDS in California, the homeless and on welfare in New York, and the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas. He also worked on a long-term project documenting the Belarusian children and adults sickened by radioactive fallout from the explosion of Chernobyl. He is now based in New York City.
Chernobyl Legacy" is a deeply powerful and moving book that portrays the terrible consequences of the greatest technological disaster of the twentieth century - the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
"Chernobyl Legacy" is a haunting document of the lives that were ruined, in particular those of the unborn and young children, most of who have severe genetic disorders and a host of lethal cancers. The book has essays by Adi Roche, founder of the Chernobyl Children's Project; Michael Douglas, United Nations Messenger for Peace, and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan.
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