Hans Van Rhoon
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hans van Rhoon ( 1958, Amsterdam)
After his time as a freelance travel photographer for magazines as National Geographic, Residence, En France, and Villa d’Arte he decided 6 years ago to turn to social and reportage photography.
He is affiliated with and is represented by the photo agency’s Hollandse Hoogte ( Holland). ZUMA Press (USA) and Camera Press (UK)
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Landscape
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- RISC training
Samosels ( Chernobyl, Ukraine)
Hans Van Rhoon
Samosels
Several hundred elderly people called samosels (self-settlers or autonomous returnees) have returned to their homes within the Zone after being evacuated after the nuclear accident in 1986. They are hardy soles who survive on their own, with little to no help from the government. They returned to their homes many years ago and grow their own produce, raise pigs for meat, hunt for wild berries and mushrooms and fish in the local river. Having survived in the Zone for up to 20 years now, these people generally disregard the dangers of radiation.
Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl (Ukraine)
Hans Van Rhoon
Chernobyl
In April 2016 it is 30 years ago that the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl (Ukraine)took place, then part of the USSR. It has been estimated that the Chernobyl disaster released into the atmosphere 400 times more radioactive material than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. The ground, the air and the water belong to the most infected areas on Earth. This area is also mentioned the 'Exclusionzone' or 'Death zone'. Today Pripyat, a town was built in the 1970s to house the plant's workers and their families is a ghost town.