The Moment: Gomel, Southern Belarus - July 2005

I had been travelling, for about six years, to the sites of several nuclear disasters in the former Soviet Union and photographing the people whose lives had been devastated by the fallout. The inhabitants of Gomel, a city in southern Belarus, have been, and continue to be, severely affected by the worst nuclear power-plant accident in history - at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.