Elena Filatova bikes through the Dead Zone of Chernobyl, chronicling – and photographing – the devastation left behind:
As I pass through the check point, I feel that I have entered an unreal world. In the dead zone, the silence of the villages, roads, and woods seem to tell something at me….something that I strain to hear….something that attracts and repels me both at the same time. It is divinely eerie – like stepping into that Salvador Dali painting with the dripping clocks.
Spooky and very, very courageous.