URANIUM BABA (ONGOING SERIES)

I spent the first eight years of my life in Siberia in a scientific research community, surrounded by dense forests and various overlapping mythologies (folkloric, ecological, and scientific.)

In the 90’s due to a mysterious environmental contamination of the area, the community we were living in began to experience increasingly severe health issues. The contamination was never acknowledged or explained, remaining a mystery far past the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Photography by Richard McConochie.