IMAGES OF THE WEEK

Here.

I'm not posting them here, because I think they work better in the context of the essay which they accompany. But check it out: it's a description of life and things in the Chernobyl region these days, written by a young woman who loves to ride her motorcycle through that area because, well, there is no traffic at all. Some of these pictures are utterly haunting: barges that simply pile up in the river, because they can't even be melted down for scrap (due to radioactivity); a child's doll left on the table where its owner left it before evacuating; domesticated animals that rejoined the wild after being abandoned; a shot from a hill of an entire abandoned city.

(via Warren Ellis)