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In 1999, a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Oddy spent a month on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. He’d gone there to explore the sprawling network of some...
In 1999, a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Oddy spent a month on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. He’d gone there to explore the sprawling network of some 2500 sanatoria that had once been an integral part of the Soviet Union’s healthcare system. Traveling between Odessa and Yalta, and armed with his 5x4 large format camera, his aim was to coax these institutions that had been the Eastern bloc’s equivalent of spas into revealing something about the obsolete political system that had led to their creation. The still green waters of this swimming pool belie the fact that minutes before Oddy made this picture the pool was teeming with Chornobyl children, sent to the Moldova Sanatorium to alleviate the effects of their town’s notorious nuclear disaster.