Ania, 23, with her daughter Roma who suffers from hydrocefalus, Kyiv, 2015
Mittica says: ‘Most of the children sickened by radiation that I photographed are no longer alive. Only their photographs remain to remind the world of them. Radiation not only erases people, but also the memory of a place and its history. I would like this book to be the memory of that place and those people for posterity’.
Ania, National Cancer Institute, Kyiv, 2015
“Ania is a six-year-old girl who grew up in a small town outside the exclusion zone. People who grew up in the contaminated areas are having #children, and there’s a lot of genetic mutation and illness related to radiation. Ania was suffering from a malignant bone #tumour. She was a strong, positive child, passionate about art and drawing. The doctors told me she had little hope of survival. I don’t know if she is still alive or not.”
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