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Today, those live inside the official 30-kilometre Exclusion Zone in Chernobyl secretly strip the dead city of its valuables, while avoiding the security forces – and the ghosts of the ruptured past.

This story documents their twilight existence as scavengers of our newest Lost Civilisation.

These homeless men and women who wander the Zone, take over abandoned apartments and village homes, looting and stripping them of the remaining valuables, we see a terrible future revealed. The most precious commodity is bulk metal, stripped of its function ­ copper, aluminum and chrome, which they collect and sell to distributors in Kiev and beyond. Our grand technical vision, the city as pure laboratory, quickly recedes into the hunting and gathering primitivism of a future stone age.