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Photojournalist Maxim Dondyuk started an extensive archive of film

‘Frozen in time’: Rescued film near Chernobyl shows life before the nuclear disaster

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Maxim Dondyuk began collecting their things. The Ukranian documentary photographer has rescued some 15,000 artifacts from villages in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, including letters, photographs, and film negatives. Dondyuk restores and scans

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