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Photographing radioactive materials

What is it about?

In my article, I examine artistic practices that makes photos of radioactivity and radioactive materials without using a camera. Artists expose photographic film directly using objects contaminated due to bombing, testing, nuclear reactor explosions, mining or uranium disposal cells.

Why is it important?

These works are important because they artistically engage with geopolitics and local histories of atomic contamination. Also, these autoradiographic works callenge our traditional understanding of photography.

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