This is an absolutely incredible site. Elena is a young woman who lives about 130km from Chernobyl. She's also an avid biker and takes her Ninja through the "Dead Zone." This site chronicles what "life" is like there now.

I can only begin to comprehend what it must be like: One day it's a bustling city and the next day...nothing. Laundry still hanging outside, precious family photos left behind and a kindergarten teacher who writes in her diary that their class walk for April 26 has been cancelled due to an "unforeseen contingency."

This site is one of the reasons I love photography so much. While these shots are far from "technically" perfect, their true beauty, their art, lies in the tragic story that they tell so well. Even the readings on Elena's "dosimeter" as she and her friend venture into different areas and buildings show in frightening detail how just a few steps in the wrong direction could win them a trip to the "chemical shower" on the way out of the dead zone.

This is an amazing journal of a place that is frozen in time (witness the Soviet slogans). But unlike Pompeii, where you see time frozen in death, there are no human bodies here. The only corpses are the empty buildings.