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Photographer reminds us of disaster’s legacy

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 20th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives), Photography
“A TALENTED photographer with a thirst for travelling journeyed 3,500 miles on the back of a motorbike to visit poverty- stricken children affected by the world’s worst nuclear power accident.

James Kenny (23), who studied photography and journalism at Peterborough Regional College, has just returned from Belarus and Ukraine, taking pictures for a charity called Bike Aid, which is raising money for The Chernobyl Children’s Project.

After the nuclear disaster in April, 1986, in Chernobyl northern Ukraine, many people suffered from the effects of radiation exposure, and children have since been born with physical probablems or have suffered from forms of cancer in childhood.”

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