Sometime ago, I happened accross this site containing images of Chernobyl, taken 20 years after the initial meltdown. I find it’s an amazingly haunting experience just looking through the photographs, imagining what it must have been like when the disaster happened. Elena has done an incredible job of capturing the atmosphere in her images.
Browsing today, I came across the url of another ghosttown though on a much smaller scale than Chernobyl, I find it almost as haunting. Its strange how ephemeral structures like the wooden huts greatly outlived the era that created them.
In this case, I think Chernobly wins, not only because of the sheer scale of the desolation, but because it also has the one image that I think is the very essence of abandonment the obligatory childs doll.