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Paul Fusco - Belarus. Chernobyl Legacy. Radiation poisoning.
BELARUS. Minsk. Thyroid Cancer Center. 1999. Cancer treatment patients.
BELARUS. Vetka. 1999. A blind man who lives alone slowly walks along the main road through the village. The farm village on the border of Belarus and Russia was
BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. Youngsters headed to their room after lunch.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. Children play on the asylum grounds.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. These two boys are inseperable. The younger boy is almost always attached to his friend.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. A grandmother feeding the baby being treated for cancer.
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BELARUS. Narovliya. A young family fled the violence of Kazakhstan and seeks refuge and hope in an evacuated village in Belarus.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Very soon this young man will be transferred to the main asylum where he will spend his life.
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BELARUS. Gomel. Orphanage for Abandoned Children. 4 1/2 yr. old Sasha has almost no lymph system. The life process produces toxins which are destroying his bod
BELARUS. Kara Viny. Many evacuated families were resettled here. They say it is much harder to earn a good living here. They are much poorer.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. These boys can't walk. When they reach late teenage they'll be transferred to main mental asylum.
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RUSSIA. Zamishevo village. The mother holds a government document certifying that her son's brain tumor was caused by Chernobyl radiation and authorizes all tre
BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. A young helpless multiple sclerosis victim is carried by an attendant.
BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. A mother embraces her son who is being treated for cancer.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. Children playing during free time on the grounds.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. The boys can't walk. Two volunteers from Germany take care of these children all day.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Boys crouch in a hallway.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Four boys in a hallway.
BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. The children are free to gather in a room to watch TV.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. There is a room for children who can't or won't walk. They spend almost all their time there.
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RUSSIA. Novozibkov. Evacuation zone. An old man tries to find some comfort in the thin autumn sun.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. The children are free to gather in a large class/play room to watch TV.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. These two boys are almost inseperable. The younger boy holds on to his friend but there isn't much interaction, it's almost as t
RUSSIA. Novozibkov. This blind woman refused to leave her home and has lived alone since Chernobyl.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. This boy spends most of his time self-absorbed. He seemed fascinated by small translucent objects such as this piece
BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. A special ward for boys who cannot walk. They spend their lives in their room.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. Mother talking with son in isolation booth, who is being treated for cancer with a bone marrow transplant. A parent
BELARUS. Minsk. Babies Home #1. A hydrocephalic baby in the intensive care unit. ©Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos
BELARUS. Bartalomeevka. Evacuation zone. Ivan and Helen Muzitchenko still sit in front of the house but now there are almost no passersby to gossip with.
© Pau
BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. Her son is being treated for cancer.
BELARUS. Minsk. 1999. Children's Cancer Hospital. Chernobyl Legacy. Radiation poisoning. A father watches over his daughter in the intensive care unit. She was
BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. Young boys pause on their way to their room.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Two boys all but disappear in a tub of plastic balls.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. The doll is her constant companion.
BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. A helpless boy is proped into a stroller so that he can watch TV with the other kids.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Home #1. A nurse holds a 2 1/2 yr. old boy with a massive growth that contains his kidneys.
RUSSIA. Novozibkov. Evacuation zone. An old couple stays in an almost abandoned village.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. Her 14 yr. old daughter has just finished the first month of an estimated five months of cancer treatment.
© Paul Fu
BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Three boys in a hallway.
BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. Family members stay in the hospital with their children during treatment. This young boy lost a leg to cancer.
BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Home #1. A nurse cradles an infant whose brain is contained in a membrane outside his skull.
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RUSSIA. Novozibkov. Fewer than a dozen people now live in this village in the evacuation zone.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Three children in their room in the asylum.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. This 9 year old boy from Azerbaidzhan has been in cancer treatment
BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. Her son recently lost one leg to cancer.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. A room of boys who can't walk. They spend the days on the floor.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Children's Cancer Hospital. A boy being treated for cancer is visited by his sister.
BELARUS. Kara Viny. Resettled by evacuees. A teenage girl gleans potatoes from a field being tilled by her father.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Two boys isolate themselves in a hall.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. Children playing on the asylum grounds.
BELARUS. Bartalomeevka. Evacuation zone. Grigory Sarikov has gone blind since resettling his home but is determined to stay on.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. A young girl plays with toys by herself in a hallway.
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BELARUS. Bartalomeevka. Evacuation zone: only five people live in the village. Nikolai Garbunov moved back in 1994 with his woman. They live off the land.
© Pau
BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Two loving girls share a moment of intimacy.
BELARUS. Narovliya area. Heavy contamination, considered dangerous, but being resettled by former evacuees.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. Boys gather in the hallways.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. The boys are bunched together but seem to be reacting only to interior stimulation.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. A helpless boy is proped up in a stroller so he can join other kids watching TV.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. An attendant watches over children playing on the asylum grounds.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. This boy rests after dragging himself up a staircase.
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BELARUS. Minsk. Novinki Asylum. A helpless child spends his days in a canvas stroller.
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BELARUS. Zhuravitchy Orphanage and Asylum. This boy left his wheelchair and dragged himself up the stairs so that he could visit with friends.
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