Paul Fusco BELARUS. Maiski. 1997. Nikolai Yanchen, one of 600,000 liquidators conscripted to fight the fires and clean up the radiation ash and contaminated villages. He lost his right leg to cancer after wor (...)
king as a liquidator for 6 years. He can no longer work and lives alone in a small village in a contaminated area near the 30km hot zone. © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos
Paul Fusco Children's Home. This hospital receives many of the most deformed babies soon after their births. Nurse Alla Komarova loves a helpless boy after she bathes him. The little boy. Zgenya, has been in (...)
the babies home since right after birth. Minsk, Belarus. 2000. © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos
Paul Fusco Intensive therapy Hemotology Unit at the Gonel regional Clinical hospital. Aleysa Beoia, 17 years old, has leukemia that was first diagnosed when she was 11 years old. Although Aleysa was treated (...)
in Russia, Ireland, USA and Belarus during that six years, none of the treatments worked. Her mother, Lida, cries in the hallway after Aleysa dies in the hospital. Gonel, Belarus. 2000. © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos