Design

A Haunting Work of Street Art Comes to Chernobyl

The somber mural pays tribute to the longtime disaster photojournalist Igor Kostin.
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Igor Kostin was a Russian photographer who in 1986 captured some of the first images of the ruined, impossibly hot Chernobyl nuclear plant—check out how radiation blurred his film even while he shot high in a helicopter.