Photographers Igor Kostin, Valery Zufarov and Volodymyr Repik Recall Chernobyl’s First Days

KIEV (AP).- Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world’s worst atomic accident. He came back home with nothing to show for his determination to document the crisis — the radiation was so high that all his shots turned out black. But Kostin returned, and his work along [...]