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Panorama view of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant control room 4. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 5
Sergii Mirnyi helps Michael Forster Rothbart photograph in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant control room 4. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Sasha Kupny Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 012
Panorama view of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant control room 1. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 5
Tania Bokova and her husband Sergii Bokov live in Slavutich, Ukraine and commute to their jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES). Tania was born in Pripyat and is the third generation in her family to work at ChAES. She is an administrator who helps manage the decommissioning of the plant. Sergii is an engineer in the liquid radioactive waste treatment facility. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 60093
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) is the site of the worldÕs worst nuclear accident. On the night of April 26, 1986, the Fourth Block reactor exploded during a safety test, sending radioactive particles into the atmosphere and eventually around the world. The population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from the new city of Slavutich (population 24,300), which was built after the accident to replace Pripyat. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51217
Slavutich, Ukraine, is the new city built after the Chernobyl accident to replace the abandoned city of Pripyat. After the April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES), the population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from Slavutich (population 24,300) through Belarus on 3 special "elektrichka" trains that depart between 6:30 and 7:30 each morning. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 55439
Workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) pass through a radiation checkpoint each day before they board the train home to Slavutich, Ukraine. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 58058
Oxana Rozmaritsa and her husband Leonid Rozmaritsa live in Slavutich, Ukraine and commute to their jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES). Oxana is a laboratory dosimetrist who measures the radiation doses received by workers in the Òdirty zoneÓ of the plant. Leonid works in the security department. Their son Nikita is 12 years old. On their days off, both work a second job as trainers and instructors at the Slavutich Fitness Center. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 58494
Tania Evteeva and her husband Eduard Evteev work for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) and live in Slavutich, Ukraine, with four of their five children. Tania works as a janitor in the Semihod facility beside the train station, where employees change into their work clothes. Eduard had to leave ChAES after a cancerous tumor was found on his kidney and removed; he now works for the plant but in Slavutich, as a manager at the Chernobyl Training Center. Their children are Daniel, age 5, Ilya, 7, Mark, 11, Yana, 17, and Bogdan, 22. Yana attends university in Chernigiv and comes home on weekends. Bogdan works at the Rivne AES. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 55663
American surgeons and international medical volunteers work side by side with local doctors and nurses to complete heart surgeries in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during a two week medical mission sponsored by Chernobyl Children's Project International and organized by the International Children's Heart Foundation. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 66546
Bas Wels and Irina Leonenko were married in the Parish of St. Alexander, a Catholic church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2009. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 64422
Petro Konovalenko, head of the village council for Sukachi, Ukraine, and other friends and neighbors help load hay into one neighbor's barn. Half the population of Sukachi was relocated here from the village of Ladizhichi after the Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 69980
On summer evenings, parents with babies and toddlers gather in the central square of Slavutych, Ukraine, to socialize. Many of the parents work at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, as do over 3,800 other residents of Slavutych. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 72371
Shepherds Vlodya Lionchev and Lyuba Gert work on a sheep ranch at the edge of the Semipalatinsk Polygon, the Soviet nuclear weapons testing site. Researchers detonated about 460 nuclear explosions above and below ground over a 40 year period, ending in 1989. The ranch is across a small valley from Lake Balapan, also known as Atomic Lake, created when a nuclear test blew the top off of a mountain. The resulting crater filled with water and is one of the most radioactive sites within the Polygon. Recently, local shepherds have watered their sheep at the lake, not believing scientific warnings about the dangers of doing so. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 8/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 11329
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) is the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. On the night of April 26, 1986, the Fourth Block reactor exploded during a safety test, sending radioactive particles into the atmosphere and eventually around the world. The population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from the new city of Slavutych (population 24,300), which was built after the accident to replace Pripyat. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 57653
During the annual Homecoming and Reunion celebration at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, a painted wall at the edge of campus welcomes alumni, and alumni, students and their families cheer during a football game in Wright Stadium against Ithaca College. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3451
During the annual Homecoming and Reunion celebration at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, a painted wall at the edge of campus welcomes alumni, and alumni, students and their families cheer during a football game in Wright Stadium against Ithaca College. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3496
During the annual Homecoming and Reunion celebration at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, a painted wall at the edge of campus welcomes alumni, and alumni, students and their families cheer during a football game in Wright Stadium against Ithaca College. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 75010
A plastic dolls appears to drown in a sea of pills, photographed for the NPR radio show This American Life as an illustration for "Less is More," an episode on the rising cost of health care. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3678
In the Semipalatinsk Polygon, Lake Balapan, also known as Atomic Lake, was created when an underground nuclear test blew the top off of a mountain. The resulting crater filled with water and is one of the most radioactive sites within the Polygon, the Soviet-era nuclear weapons testing site. Researchers detonated about 460 nuclear explosions above and below ground over a 40 year period, ending in 1989. More recently, local shepherds have watered their sheep at the lake, not believing scientific warnings about the dangers of doing so. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 8/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 11774 to 76 Note 10-19-09: this panorama was created by stitching 3 consecutive photos together using Photomerge/blend images. The merge is fine for web use but for large prints it should be redone more carefully.
A wooden doll is carried on a dollar bill stretcher by two prescription pill bottles, photographed for the NPR radio show This American Life as an illustration for "Someone ElseÕs Money," an episode looking inside the health insurance industry. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3777
Red maple leaves shine through the ripples at the edge of Wilber Lake, near Oneonta, New York, on a sunny fall day. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 75845
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) is the site of the worldÕs worst nuclear accident. On the night of April 26, 1986, the Fourth Block reactor exploded during a safety test, sending radioactive particles into the atmosphere and eventually around the world. The population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from the new city of Slavutich (population 24,300), which was built after the accident to replace Pripyat. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51336
Slavutich, Ukraine, is the new city built after the Chernobyl accident for evacuees from Pripyat, the abandoned city in the Exclusion Zone. Nearly 4,000 out of the 25,000 inhabitants still work at Chernobyl today, commuting through Belarus on 3 special ÒelektrichkaÓ trains that depart between 6:30 and 7:30 each morning. In the evening, the workers walk home from the train station past the Silpo supermarket. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 50862
Slavutich, Ukraine, is the new city built after the Chernobyl accident to replace the abandoned city of Pripyat. After the April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES), the population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from Slavutich (population 24,300) through Belarus on 3 special "elektrichka" trains that depart between 6:30 and 7:30 each morning. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 57043
Slavutich, Ukraine, is the new city built after the Chernobyl accident to replace the abandoned city of Pripyat. After the April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES), the population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages. Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from Slavutich (population 24,300) through Belarus on 3 special "elektrichka" trains that depart between 6:30 and 7:30 each morning. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227¥ 734-418-8637 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 55412
Chernobyl liquidator Sergii Mirnyi enjoys the banya in Chernigiv, Ukraine. He accompanied Vachislav Danilov, a medical researcher working at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES). In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com E 207-445-5227e 734-418-863786 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 56305
Customers fill their gas tanks at the Energiya Plus gas station at the edge of Ivankiv, on the road to Sukachi. (In this photo I was trying to capture a sense of isolation and the darkness of the 15-hour night.) © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2008 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 52871
Drunk man passed out in a snowdrift in Ivankiv. Full caption to come. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2008 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 53869
Father Momotyuk Nazarii, the village priest at the church in Novo Ladizhichi, Ukraine, goes Christmas caroling with members of his congregation to celebrate Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, January 7, 2009. The group spent two days going door to door all over Sukachi and Novo Ladizhichi, singing, offering blessings, and collecting donations for the church. When people gave them candy and fruit, they redistributed it to children and elderly residents. Novo Ladizhichi was built in 1987 to house evacuees from the original village of Ladizhichi following the 1986 Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50490
Father Momotyuk Nazarii, the village priest at the church in Novo Ladizhichi, Ukraine, goes Christmas caroling with members of his congregation to celebrate Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, January 7, 2009. The group spent two days going door to door all over Sukachi and Novo Ladizhichi, singing, offering blessings, and collecting donations for the church. When people gave them candy and fruit, they redistributed it to children and elderly residents. Novo Ladizhichi was built in 1987 to house evacuees from the original village of Ladizhichi following the 1986 Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50163
Father Momotyuk Nazarii, the village priest at the church in Novo Ladizhichi, Ukraine, goes Christmas caroling with members of his congregation to celebrate Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, January 7, 2009. The group spent two days going door to door all over Sukachi and Novo Ladizhichi, singing, offering blessings, and collecting donations for the church. When people gave them candy and fruit, they redistributed it to children and elderly residents. Novo Ladizhichi was built in 1987 to house evacuees from the original village of Ladizhichi following the 1986 Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50792
Representatives from Oneonta and Elmira-area community groups met with Senator James Seward, his chief of staff Duncan Davie, and Assemblyman Tom OÕMara during a day of rallies and lobbying in Albany. Protestors from across New York state converged on the state capitol, Jan. 25, 2010, for two simultaneous rallies about proposed natural gas drilling across the stateÕs southern tier. Some 600 members of community groups and local environmental groups attended a rally in the Empire State Concourse. Speakers included Onondaga Nation faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, (D-Ithaca) and Al Appleton of the Regional Planning Association. 327 of the drilling opponents stayed on to lobby their legislators. The Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing public comments on a draft Enivironmental Impact Statement for the Òhydraulic fracturingÓ method of gas drilling in the stateÕs Marcellus shale formation. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50438
Community protestors from across New York state converged on the state capitol in Albany, Jan. 25, 2010, for two simultaneous rallies about proposed natural gas drilling across the stateÕs southern tier. Some 600 members of community groups and local environmental groups attended a rally in the Empire State Concourse. Speakers included Onondaga Nation faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, (D-Ithaca) and Al Appleton of the Regional Planning Association. 327 of the drilling opponents stayed on to lobby their legislators. The Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing public comments on a draft Enivironmental Impact Statement for the Òhydraulic fracturingÓ method of gas drilling in the stateÕs Marcellus shale formation. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50366
Community protestors from across New York state converged on the state capitol in Albany, Jan. 25, 2010, for two simultaneous rallies about proposed natural gas drilling across the stateÕs southern tier. Media estimated 400 to 700 drilling supporters attended a rainy rally in Lafayette Park, where they were addressed by Assemblyman Bill Parment (D- Chautauqua), Senator Thomas Libous, (R-Binghamton) and businessman Ken Adams. The Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing public comments on a draft Enivironmental Impact Statement for the Òhydraulic fracturingÓ method of gas drilling in the stateÕs Marcellus shale formation. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2010 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3927
Community protestors from across New York state converged on the state capitol in Albany, Jan. 25, 2010, for two simultaneous rallies about proposed natural gas drilling across the stateÕs southern tier. Some 600 members of community groups and local environmental groups attended a rally in the Empire State Concourse. Speakers included Onondaga Nation faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, (D-Ithaca) and Al Appleton of the Regional Planning Association. 327 of the drilling opponents stayed on to lobby their legislators. The Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing public comments on a draft Enivironmental Impact Statement for the Òhydraulic fracturingÓ method of gas drilling in the stateÕs Marcellus shale formation. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2010 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3994
Wes McEachron, an instrument maker in the UW-Madison machine shop, has helped maintain the Music Hall clock since 1988. The clock was installed in the clocktower of what was then called Assembly Hall in 1879, and remains gravity-run 125 years later. ©UW-Madison University Communications 608/262-0067 Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/04 File#: D100 digital camera frame 4494
At 2:48 am in New York City, a drunk woman from Harrisburg, PA, rides the 1 train uptown to Penn Station, talking about how she hates New York rats, and New York in general, while her boyfriend Zach tries to sleep off his alcohol. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50546
A few hearty pedestrians, joggers and cyclists cross the Brooklyn Bridge despite blustery winds and icy snow blowing. By sunset on Feb. 10, 2010, 7 inches had fallen in Manhattan, although this was enough to slow transportation across the region.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com i 607-267-4893 l 734-418-863720 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51051
A few hearty pedestrians, joggers and cyclists cross the Brooklyn Bridge despite blustery winds and icy snow blowing. By sunset on Feb. 10, 2010, 7 inches had fallen in Manhattan, although this was enough to slow transportation across the region. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51088
A few hearty pedestrians, joggers and cyclists cross the Brooklyn Bridge despite blustery winds and icy snow blowing. By sunset on Feb. 10, 2010, 7 inches had fallen in Manhattan, although this was enough to slow transportation across the region. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 734-418-8637 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51098
Workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES) pass through a radiation checkpoint each day before they board the train home to Slavutich, Ukraine. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com d 207-445-5227@ 734-418-863786 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 58058
Kendall Maxwell (right) and John Doe flirt during a date at BAU bar in the East Village of New York City. (Doe (name withheld) requested that his real name not be used online). © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com * 607-267-4893 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50682
Kendall Maxwell (right) and John Doe flirt and kiss during a date at BAU bar in the East Village of New York City. (Doe requested that his surname not be used online). © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com 1 607-267-4893 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50682
Tourists photograph the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. On the night of April 26, 1986, the Fourth Block reactor (visible at center) exploded during a safety test, sending radioactive particles into the atmosphere and eventually around the world. The population within 30 kilometers was permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat city and many villages. This day-long tour was organized by Pripyat.com, a historic preservationist group founded by evacuees from Pripyat, working to save their hometown from ruin before looters and weather destroy what remains.Although ChAES stopped generating electricity in December 2000, today 3,800 employees continue to work at the plant, commuting from the new city of Slavutych (population 24,300), which was built after the accident to replace Pripyat.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com
Sergii Kosehelev and his wife Lyuda Kosheleva live in Slavutich, Ukraine, and commute to their jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP or ChAES). Sergii is a videographer for the Shelter Implementation Plan Project Management Unit, filming and editing video reports. Lyuda is an administrator in the Shelter Management Unit. Their daughter Nastia is 15 years old. In total, about 3,800 out of 24,300 Slavutich residents work at the Chernobyl plant.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com } 207-445-5227} 734-418-863786 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 2/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 54950
Kyrgyzstan opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev was one of the leaders in large-scale anti-government protests today, April 7, 2010, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This file photo shows Tekebaev during earlier protests, when he was campaigning for President in 2000. Original caption:AKMAN, Kyrgyzstan. October 31, 2000 -- Unsuccessful Kyrgyzstan Presidential contender Omurbek Tekebaev visits his supporters at three sites in Jalal Abad oblast and calls for them to end protests blocking the Osh-Bishkek highway, KyrgyzstanŒs primary artery between the north and south halves of the country.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com 607-267-4893 ½ 347-722-047920 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 10/2000 File#: 2K128-20
Singer Lee Knight sings, dances and reads stories with children from the Oneonta, NY, area during Books Alive!, an interactive performance organized by the Oneonta World of Learning (OWL) on April 10, 2010. OWL, a ÒchildrenÕs museum without walls,Ó organizes educational events for children in Oneonta. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 607-267-4893 ¥ 347-722-0479 20 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 13820 86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 5
In Dimock, PA, Craig and Julie Saunter are among 14 families along Carter Road whose drinking water wells became contaminated with methane and other chemicals after gas drilling on their properties. Cabot Oil and Gas, the company held responsible by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, has had at least 21 spills in Dimock Township in less than two years. “Our water smells of diesel fuel,” says Craig Saunter. “In our water, we’ve found aluminum, manganese, chloride, iron, magnesium, sodium, strontium-T, all above the EPA limits, and TDS [Total Dissolved Solids] and other elements we can’t disclose yet.” The Saunters’ well has so much methane that Craig can sometimes light his water on fire, and Cabot had to install an exhaust pipe to vent off excess methane. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is new method of drilling for natural gas: millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are pumped down a well under high pressure. The pressure fractures the shale, opening fissures so that natural gas can flow more freely. In August 2010, fracking is being widely used in the Marcellus Shale formation under Pennsylvania while New York is considering a temporary moratorium on the practice until the environmental effects can be reviewed. The 2005 Energy Policy Act created exemptions from Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act regulations for natural gas drilling, and exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during fracking. Scientists have identified volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, methane and xylene that have been found in contaminated drinking water near drilling sites. Other environmental concerns include surface water contamination, air pollution, forest fragmentation, plus human health problems. On the other hand, gas companies and property owners stand to earn up to one trillion dollars in profits from drilling in the Marcellus Shale.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photograph
A muddy American flag hangs Shawn Atkinson’s basement on Charles Place, near Riverside Drive in Binghamton. Flooding from the Susquehanna River covered his first floor in five feet of water. Residents and business owners in the Binghamton, NY, area, including Johnson City, Endwell, Vestal, and Westover, struggle to clean up from record-breaking flooding from the Susquehanna River after heavy rain in upstate New York from Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28-29 and Tropical Storm Lee on Sept. 7-8.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-489334 Spruce St, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 9/2011 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 70583
Dennis Diorio looks at flooding on Harry L Drive in the Oakdale section of Johnson City, NY, on Sunday. Sections of Harry L Drive, Oakdale Road and 17C all remained closed 4 days after the Susquehanna River flooded. Residents and business owners struggle to clean up from record-breaking flooding in the Binghamton area from the Susquehanna River after heavy rain in upstate New York from Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28-29 and Tropical Storm Lee on Sept. 7-8.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-489334 Spruce St, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 9/2011 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 70797
The Susquehanna River, viewed at night from the Route 201 bridge in Vestal, NY, remains well above flood stage 4 days after it flooded. Residents and business owners in the Binghamton, NY, area, including Johnson City, Endwell, Vestal, and Westover, struggle to clean up from record-breaking flooding from the Susquehanna River after heavy rain in upstate New York from Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28-29 and Tropical Storm Lee on Sept. 7-8.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-489334 Spruce St, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 9/2011 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 700872
Shoes start to float out of a house as three to five feet of water covers Division St. in Sidney, NY. Flooding from the Susquehanna River led to the closing of Interstate 88 in Otego, NY, and forced evacuation of the flooded downtown in Sidney, NY, on Sept. 8, 2011. The Susquehanna River continued to rise Thursday afternoon, with periods of heavy rain in upstate New York due to Tropical Storm Lee.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-489334 Spruce St, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 9/2011 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 70445
The full moon lights a radio telescope and the peaks above the GAISH Astronomical Observatory in the Zhungarsky Alatau mountains outside Almaty, Kazakhstan. Above the observatory is 3954-meter (12,972-foot) Peak Turist and 3681-meter (12,077-foot) Big Almaty Peak. This photograph was taken in the middle of the night with an 8-second-long exposure. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9573
Ukrainian undergraduate film student and actress Lena Prokopenko and author Sergii Mirnyi stand on the top of a hill in the Botanical Garden in Kyiv, overlooking the city skyline in Pechersk at sunset. Mirnyi is working to produce a comedy feature film about the lives of soldiers cleaning up after the 1986 Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 7574
Kyiv Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama, sponsored by the US embassy and Democrats Abroad. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 51896
Kyiv Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama, sponsored by the US embassy and Democrats Abroad. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 52012
Kyiv Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama, sponsored by the US embassy and Democrats Abroad. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 52405
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6434
Red light district, Amsterdam. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 12/2008 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 55640
Natasha and her friends spent New Years Eve driving around Kyiv in a very long limousine. Shortly before midnight they headed downtown to Maidan Nezhelezhnosti (Freedom Square) to enjoy the crowds and fireworks. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 12/2008 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 55862
An abandoned bus rusts away in the forest near Lyutezh, Ukraine, south of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Outside the 30-kilometer zone are thousands of small villages such as Lyutezh in Vyshgorodskiy raion, where the land was also contaminated by radioactive fallout. People continue to live here despite possibly higher incidences of diseases such as cancer, and many receive small government pensions for their status as Chernobyl survivors. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6582
A dosimeter shows the current radiation level outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In the background is Fourth Block of the plant, where the Chernobyl accident occurred on April 26, 1986 during an ill-advised late night safety test. After 21 years, the radiation outside the plant remains high enough that stopping here for more than a brief period is not recommended. Nevertheless, this site is one of many which tourists visit during a one-day excursion into the Exclusion Zone. Chernobyl has become one of Ukraine's hottest tourist destinations. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4785
Viktor and Lydia Gaidak sit in their apartment in Desnyanskiy district at the outskirts of Kyiv. Viktor worked for 24 years at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, including 9 years after the 1986 catastrophe. In 2004 he had surgery for colon cancer. "When I was sick with cancer," says Gaidak, a retired engineer and liquidator, "we sold our car to pay for the surgery. We sold our TV, we sold our refrigerator, jewelry, everything we could. Now my wife Lydia has cancer and there's nothing left to sell." Many of the former residents of the Chernobyl exclusion zone were relocated here. More than twenty years later, nearly half of the 46,000 residents of the city of Pripyat still live in Desnyanskiy raion, where they struggle with health problems, unemployment, overflowing apartments and little government support. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4662
After Chernobyl Part 3: Life. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame
After Chernobyl Part 1: Loss. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame
Father Momotyuk Nazarii, the village priest at the church in Novo Ladizhichi, Ukraine, goes Christmas caroling with members of his congregation to celebrate Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, January 7, 2009. The group spent two days going door to door all over Sukachi and Novo Ladizhichi, singing, offering blessings, and collecting donations for the church. When people gave them candy and fruit, they redistributed it to children and elderly residents. Novo Ladizhichi was built in 1987 to house evacuees from the original village of Ladizhichi following the 1986 Chernobyl accident. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 1/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 50497
Boats used in the clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 were too radioactive to continue using. Now they are rusting away in the former town of Chernobyl harbor. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 5115
The village cemetery in Sukachi, 20 kilometers south of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, is full of liquidators who served in the clean-up efforts after the Chernobyl accident. On Victory Day (May 9, 2007), Nadiya Ivanivna Shumak and her family visit the grave of her husband Mikhail Fedorovich Shumak, who died in October 2006 at the age of 61 with heart problems possibly caused by radiation. Since he lived nearby, Mikhail volunteered as a liquidator, cleaning contaminated vehicles in 1986 and doing construction and repair of canals in 1989. ÒHowever, he was without papers,Ó says Nadiya. ÒThey didnÕt document him on a komandarovka, didnÕt write down his name,Ó so that later, he did not qualify for a pension or benefits. ÒChernobyl was a dangerous timeÓ says MikhailÕs cousin Ivan Mertel of Ivankiv. ÒThere was one with a respirator and ten without. Now no one knows what is clean and what is dirty.Ó Also pictured: NadiyaÕs daughter Tanya, grand-daughter Yana, age 3. Sukachi village is just north of Ivankiv and has population of 1,200. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6949
A woman disembarks from a bus, as seen out the bus window on a foggy fall morning, on the road from Kyiv to Slavutich, Ukraine. This series was shot through a small hole wiped clear on the fogged bus window. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond Rd., Vassalboro ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1
View after sunrise of the hilltop Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, which dates to 1051 A.D., with an out-of-focus fencepost at the center of the image. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9027
Sasha Starovoitenko (in suit jacket) leads an Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step meeting in the Chernobyl Community Center in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Sasha was a liquidator in Chernobyl, serving in the army during the clean-up effort following the 1986 catastrophe. Afterwards, he began to drink and spent many years as an alcoholic. Today he serves as an alcohol prevention counselor for the community center. Borodyanka is a small town (population 16,000) 48 miles south of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where many Chernobyl evacuees were resettled in 1986. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 0555
Two women pray and read from the Bible as Ukrainians crowd into the Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral) in the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine for an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service, on April 8, 2007. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2220
An abandoned village on the road between Ivankiv and Ovruch, Ukraine, contains little more than the shells of former houses, a school and a government building. Although outside the exclusion zone, the village was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything with any value has since been stripped from the buildings, including even windows and wiring. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2882
View from the Solntsye kindergarten in Pripyat, the abandoned city next to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4139
Viktor and Lydia Gaidak sit in their apartment in Desnyanskiy district at the outskirts of Kyiv. Viktor worked for 24 years at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, including 9 years after the 1986 catastrophe. In 2004 he had surgery for colon cancer. "When I was sick with cancer," says Gaidak, a retired engineer and liquidator, "we sold our car to pay for the surgery. We sold our TV, we sold our refrigerator, jewelry, everything we could. Now my wife Lydia has cancer and there's nothing left to sell." Many of the former residents of the Chernobyl exclusion zone were relocated here. More than twenty years later, nearly half of the 46,000 residents of the city of Pripyat still live in Desnyanskiy raion, where they struggle with health problems, unemployment, overflowing apartments and little government support. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4597
Leonid Budkovsky with his grandson Slava. "In Chernobyl, no one knew how serious it was. We wore no special clothes," he told me. He began to have health problems in 1992 and by 1996 he was confined to a wheelchair. "I am 55 years old and no one needs me," he said. "I can still hold a spoon but I need help to go the bathroom and I have to wear Pampers." © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 5855
Leonid Budkovsky delivered military mail to the Chernobyl zone for nearly 5 years after the 1986 accident. "In Chernobyl, no one knew how serious it was. We wore no special clothes," he told me. He began to have health problems in 1992 and by 1996 he was confined to a wheelchair. "I am 55 years old and no one needs me," he said. "I can still hold a spoon but I need help to go the bathroom and I have to wear Pampers." © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 5877
Serik Baizhanov of Almaty enjoys a (very brief) swim in the chilly water of Lake Issyk (also spelled Yesik) in the Ili-Alatau National Park near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The kilometer-long lake at 1760 meters elevation is fed by glaciers on nearby 4978Ðmeter Talgar Peak; the water is a frigid 9 degrees Celsius. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 0059
A group of Kazakh, Uzbek and Russian friends enjoy a Sunday afternoon beside Lake Issyk (also spelled Yesik) in the Ili-Alatau National Park near Almaty, Kazakhstan. Any outing in Central Asia requires alcohol, usually vast amounts of vodka. Here, Lola and her new boyfriend Nurik down a shot. The kilometer-long lake at 1760 meter elevation is fed by glaciers on nearby 4978-meter Talgar Peak; the water is a frigid 9 degrees Celsius. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 10092
Members of a Raion Election Commission in Ala Buka raion, Jalal Abad oblast, Kyrgyzstan make celebratory vodka toasts after an inspection by international observers from OSCE. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2000 File#: color negative 2K121-05
The Forward statue stands in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol building on the corner of State St., W. Mifflin St., and N. Carroll St. in downtown Madison, at sunset on a late summer evening. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 michael@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 9/2005 File#: color neg 05-129-21
During the annual Friends of Starkweather Creek summer solstice celebration at Olbrich Park in Madison, WI, a boy quietly watches as sparks fly upward from a towering bonfire as other community members listen to live music, admire giant puppets and dance around the fire . © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 michael@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2006 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3061
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19144
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19441
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19117
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19357
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19372
Undergraduate students at UW-Madison study, hang out, and play games in their dormitory rooms in the new Ogg Residence Hall, which opened in August 2007. Client: UW University Housing © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 11/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 19377
Multiple exposure photograph of Nell and Laine Curtis, undergraduate senior dance majors and identical twin sisters, performing their modern dance piece "Venga" during the Dance Program "2002 Millennium Workshop" high school outreach day in Lathrop Hall. 24 girls from Madison, Milwaukee and Fond du Lac attended the day of workshops and performances. Venga is the student work selected to represent UW-Madison at the upcoming Midwest Regional American College Dance Festival in Iowa in March 2002. ©UW-Madison University Communications 608/262-0067 Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 02/02 File#: 0202-43c-04
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of 18,400 at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1481
Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to a crowd of several thousand supporters at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI, the day before the Wisconsin primary election. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2008
Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to a crowd of several thousand supporters at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI, the day before the Wisconsin primary election. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1993
A group of children play on the small playground outside their apartment building on Mayakovskogo Prospekt. Most of the evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident were relocated here to the Desnyanskiy district at the outskirts of Kyiv. More than twenty years later, nearly half of the 46,000 residents of the city of Pripyat still live in Desnyanskiy raion, where they struggle with health problems, unemployment, little government support and overflowing apartments, in which three generations of extended families often live crowded into a two room apartment. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1908
An abandoned village on the road between Ivankiv and Ovruch, Ukraine, contains little more than the shells of former houses, a school and a government building. Although outside the exclusion zone, the village was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything with any value has since been stripped from the buildings, including even windows and wiring. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2808
An abandoned village on the road between Ivankiv and Ovruch, Ukraine, contains little more than the shells of former houses, a school and a government building. Although outside the exclusion zone, the village was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything with any value has since been stripped from the buildings, including even windows and wiring. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2828
An abandoned village on the road between Ivankiv and Ovruch, Ukraine, contains little more than the shells of former houses, a school and a government building. Although outside the exclusion zone, the village was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything with any value has since been stripped from the buildings, including even windows and wiring. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2854
Ukrainian author and Chernobyl liquidator Sergii Mirnyi speaks during a reading of his most recent screenplay. Mirnyi is working to produce a comedy feature film about the lives of soldiers cleaning up after the 1986 Chernobyl accident. During decontamination efforts, Mirnyi served as commander of a radiation reconnaissance platoon in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3693
A group of children play on the small playground outside their apartment building on Mayakovskogo Prospekt. Most of the evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident were relocated here to the Desnyanskiy district at the outskirts of Kyiv. More than twenty years later, nearly half of the 46,000 residents of the city of Pripyat still live in Desnyanskiy raion, where they struggle with health problems, unemployment, little government support and overflowing apartments, in which three generations of extended families often live crowded into a two room apartment. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1990
Two priests stand at attention at the start of an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service, shortly before midnight on April 7, 2007. Ukrainians crowded into the Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral) in the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine for an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2079
A woman prays and makes the sign of the cross while holding a candle as Ukrainians crowd into the Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral) in the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine for an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service, on April 8. 2007. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2185
Ukrainians crowd into the Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral) in the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine for an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service, on April 8. 2007. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2331
A priest splashes holy water over the crowd on Easter morning as Ukrainians crowd into the Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral) in the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine during an all-night Eastern Orthodox Easter service, on April 8. 2007. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 2387
Mark Schmitz, the founder and creative director of Zebra Dog Studios, stands in his office in downtown Madison, which is filled with the graphic design materials heÕs collected over the decades. Zebra Dog creates Òminiature museumsÓ and other three-dimensional exhibits that blend branding, marketing and history. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 3769 and collage
Josh Makoutz, owner of BradburyÕs coffee shop, buys spinach, potatoes, ham, eggs and jam at the Dane County winter farmerÕs market in the Madison Senior Center, April 5, 2008. BradburyÕs uses locally-grown produce and dairy products as much as possible in their menu. ÒIt feels good to serve Madison the best that Wisconsin has to offer,Ó says Makoutz. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame
Chasidic wedding ceremony of Nissi Gansbourg of Montreal and Chanie Matusof of Madison, daughter of Madison Rabbi Yona Matusof, director of Chabad House, in Middleton, Wis. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame
UW-Madison undergraduate students living in the Bradley Learning Community residence hall celebrate the end of the semester with a dinner, games, water balloons and a jump in the lake. Client: UW Division of Housing. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4319
UW-Madison undergraduate students living in the Bradley Learning Community residence hall celebrate the end of the semester with a dinner, games, water balloons and a jump in the lake. Client: UW Division of Housing. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4322
Danielle Berman and Mike Horgan are expecting their first baby at the end of June 2008. In these photos, Danielle is 9 months pregnant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4528
Danielle Berman and Mike Horgan are expecting their first baby at the end of June 2008. In these photos, Danielle is 9 months pregnant. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4603
House at 11533 Shore Dr, Milton, photographed for Obeo.com. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 5230-5246
House at 2318 Hoard St., photographed for Obeo.com. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4821-4835
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6828
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6361
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4933
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6682
Abha Thakkar and Ben Schumaker get married at Paradise Park in Cottage Grove, Wis., with a crowd of friends and family in attendance. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 7/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 4941
An earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains of southern Kyrgyzstan leveled the village of Bura and killed at least 70 residents on October 6, 2008. In this file photo from nearby, Kyrgyz horsemen herd cattle in a remote valley below 9,400-foot Kyzyl-Bel pass in the Tien Shan mountains, along the road linking Naryn and At-Bashy, Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at Torugart pass. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 207-445-5227 86 Three Mile Pond, Vassalboro, ME 04989 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/29/2000 File#: Color negative frame 2K079-18
A cobblestone street leads to the hilltop Upper Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, which dates to 1051 A.D. The Church of the Assumption (Uspensky Cathedral), at right, was completed in 1077 and is the oldest of the many churches in the monastery, although it was destroyed in World War II and only recently rebuilt. The Refectory and Chapel of Saints Anthony and Theodosius, left, is named for the founders of the monastery, who began and lived in an extensive network of underground caves. This photo is taken shortly after sunrise during winter. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9047
A cobblestone street leads from the hilltop upper portion of the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a series of man-made caves, which date to 1051 A.D. Saints Anthony and Theodosius founded the monastery, and began and lived in the extensive network of underground caves. This photo is taken shortly after sunrise during winter. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9065
Students from the International Solomonyv University in Kyiv hang out on a bench in Pobedy Park near the Darnitsa Metro station on a warm Sunday afternoon during winter. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9340
Cars speed past the Dnipro Hotel and down the cobblestone street Vladimirskiy Spusk as they descend from Kreshchatyk Street and Evropeyskaya Ploschad (European Square) in central Kyiv to Podil at night during winter. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Amy Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 9832
Students from the village of Dmitrovka, west of Kyiv, participate in a one-day training at the Chernobyl Community Center in Boyarka. The Youth Action Project workshop focused on how to be an activist and how to improve health conditions in radiation-affected areas, and was led by trainers Anya Yatsenko (in green jacket), Oksana Slepova and Tatiana Komakh. The students are sixth and eleventh graders and members of the student government at the one school in Dmitrovka, which is 52 miles south of Chernobyl. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 0794
Students from the village of Dmitrovka, west of Kyiv, participate in a one-day training at the Chernobyl Community Center in Boyarka. The Youth Action Project workshop focused on how to be an activist and how to improve health conditions in radiation-affected areas, and was led by trainers Anya Yatsenko (in green jacket), Oksana Slepova and Tatiana Komakh. The students are sixth and eleventh graders and members of the student government at the one school in Dmitrovka, which is 52 miles south of Chernobyl. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 0825
Today for the first time ever I showed up for a photo and was welcomed by a choral serenade and fresh baked bread. Man, they know how to welcome guests here! I was visiting Ivankiv, the last remaining inhabited town before the Chernobyl exclusion zone. These women are members of a 45-women choir dedicated to preserving traditional songs and dances of the Polissa region, and supporting each other in tough times. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 3/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 0928
Members of the Party of Regions and other protestors gather around the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) building on April 3, 2007, after President Viktor Yushchenko announced he was dissolving the Parliament and planned to hold new elections. The current Parliamentary crisis is the latest in a long simmering battle for power between the western-oriented President and his chief rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich's Russian-leaning supporters filled Kyiv's streets and parks today, setting up tent encampments and vowing to keep 24-hour vigils, in an echo of Ukraine's Orange Revolution which originally swept Yushchenko to power in 2004. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1524
Members of the Party of Regions and other protestors gather around the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) building on April 3, 2007, after President Viktor Yushchenko announced he was dissolving the Parliament and planned to hold new elections. The current Parliamentary crisis is the latest in a long simmering battle for power between the western-oriented President and his chief rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich's Russian-leaning supporters filled Kyiv's streets and parks today, setting up tent encampments and vowing to keep 24-hour vigils, in an echo of Ukraine's Orange Revolution which originally swept Yushchenko to power in 2004. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1536
Members of the Party of Regions and other protestors gather around the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) building on April 3, 2007, after President Viktor Yushchenko announced he was dissolving the Parliament and planned to hold new elections. The current Parliamentary crisis is the latest in a long simmering battle for power between the western-oriented President and his chief rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich's Russian-leaning supporters filled Kyiv's streets and parks today, setting up tent encampments and vowing to keep 24-hour vigils, in an echo of Ukraine's Orange Revolution which originally swept Yushchenko to power in 2004. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1559
Members of the Party of Regions and other protestors gather around the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) building on April 3, 2007, after President Viktor Yushchenko announced he was dissolving the Parliament and planned to hold new elections. The current Parliamentary crisis is the latest in a long simmering battle for power between the western-oriented President and his chief rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich's Russian-leaning supporters filled Kyiv's streets and parks today, setting up tent encampments and vowing to keep 24-hour vigils, in an echo of Ukraine's Orange Revolution which originally swept Yushchenko to power in 2004. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1583
Supporters of Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich rallied this morning, April 4, outside the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) building in Kyiv. A crowd of perhaps 2,000 waved flags and listened to speeches, while many more lounged in the adjacent park. Later, the protestors marched down the hill to Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) where a larger rally was held in the afternoon in front of a giant stage that appeared overnight. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1625
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- 25 AUG 1999 -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin speaks to reporters outside the Pinara Hotel during the three-day Shanghai Summit, August 25th. Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev hosted the presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and China, as the leaders focused on trade issues, regional security and signing border demarcation treaties. Yeltsin told the media that he is "healthy and ready to fight" following heart bypass surgery earlier this month. Michael Rothbart/AP
The morning sun silhouettes statues in the center of Republic Square in Almaty, including children on horseback and the Monument to Independence topped by a replica of Kazakhstan's Golden Man, a celebrated Scythian archaeological relic dating from the 5th century B.C. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 7787
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8323
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8340
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8350
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8367
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8386
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8430
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan, with Buddhist petroglyphs dating from 800 to 500 A.D. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8442
A group of about 35 Kazakhstanis and foreigners participate in a trash cleanup at Tamgaly Tas, an archaeological site with Buddhist petroglyphs beside the Ili river, downstream from Kapchagai, Kazakhstan. During the cleanup, organized by climatologist Renato Sala of the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, the volunteers filled a truck with bags of garbage and took part in a ceremony led by a local Buddhist monk. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8450
Gulzhana (surname withheld) and her brother Jan sell pirated DVDs from a sidewalk stand on Manas street in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. ÒWe sell videos for 70 som [US $1.85] for each one. Every day I sell about fifteen. We buy them for 50 som [US $ 1.32]. Gulzhana sells films in Russian, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. Each DVD typically contains eight to ten movies. "There are no legal DVDs sold in Kyrgyzstan," says my friend Buajar Bekova, "just good illegal copies and bad illegal copies." © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 6/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 8618
Kristin Thompson by Michael Forster Rothbart 2007
Jeremi Suri, associate professor of history and senior fellow at the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy at at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of a new book titled "Henry Kissinger and the American Century." "Much of my interest in history derives from my desire to understand the present and the human condition," says Suri. "To understand where we are today, you need to know where we've come from." © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 michael@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 10/2006 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 6543
Two men named Oleg beg for money at the entrance to the Kontraktova metro station in Kyiv. Oleg (surname withheld, left) was a driver but lost his lower leg and his job in a traffic accident 8 years ago. Today he sleeps beside a lake in a Kyiv park. He declined to answer any further questions about his life. Some of the photos in this series were shot to creat a multi-image collage of the two men. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 7263
Two men named Oleg beg for money at the entrance to the Kontraktova metro station in Kyiv. Oleg (surname withheld, left) was a driver but lost his lower leg and his job in a traffic accident 8 years ago. Today he sleeps beside a lake in a Kyiv park. He declined to answer any further questions about his life. Some of the photos in this series were shot to creat a multi-image collage of the two men. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 5/2007 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 7251
Volunteer cooks, including Alex Lyon and Jared Zyskowski, use local ingredients to prepare the weekly Taste of the Market breakfast at the Dane County Winter FarmerÕs Market. According to breakfast coordinator Judy Hageman of Snug Haven Farm, ÒitÕs all local, every single thing that is on the plate. Even the blueberries in the muffins, they were frozen last summer.Ó About 20,000 people visit the summer market each week. ÒA lot more people are paying attention to what they are eating,Ó says Hageman. ÒThey want to get it from the farmer, or as close to the farmer as they can. ItÕs pretty obvious that economically the FarmerÕs Market vitalizes downtown.Ó © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 4/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame
Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to a crowd of several thousand supporters at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI, the day before the Wisconsin primary election. © Michael Forster Rothbart Photography www.mfrphoto.com ¥ 608-242-1131 64 Lansing St, Madison, WI 53714 info@mfrphoto.com Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart Date: 2/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 1994
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A natural gas drilling rig run by Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation drills a well on Jean Blaisure’s farm in Elk Lake, Dimock Township, PA. Overall, about 200 gas wells have been drilled in Dimock in the past two years, where drinking water wells became contaminated with methane and other chemicals; Pennsylvania had over 77,000 wells as of 2009. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is new method of drilling for natural gas: millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are pumped down a well under high pressure. The pressure fractures the shale, opening fissures so that natural gas can flow more freely. In August 2010, fracking is being widely used in the Marcellus Shale formation under Pennsylvania while New York is considering a temporary moratorium on the practice until the environmental effects can be reviewed. The 2005 Energy Policy Act exempted natural gas drilling from the Safe Drinking Water Act (plus some regulations of the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act), and exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during fracking. Scientists have identified volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, methane and xylene that have been found in contaminated drinking water near drilling sites. Other environmental concerns include surface water contamination, air pollution, forest fragmentation, plus human health problems. On the other hand, gas companies and property owners stand to earn up to one trillion dollars in profits from drilling in the Marcellus Shale.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-48935 Draper St, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 8/2010 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 68978
The city of Slavutych, Ukraine, celebrates its annual Day of the City with a parade and a concert on the central square. Slavutych is the city built after the 1986 Chernobyl accident to house relocated workers from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the last city built by the Soviet Union.© Michael Forster Rothbart Photographywww.mfrphoto.com • 607-267-4893 • 347-722-047920 Gardner Place, #59, Oneonta, NY 1382086 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989info@mfrphoto.comPhoto by: Michael Forster RothbartDate: 6/2009 File#: Canon 5D digital camera frame 66336
