The Sacrifice Zone
The Sacrifice Zone
December 26, 2023
![Eddo Hartmann. Black Pylon, Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, 2022](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550419/Eddo-Hartmann-Black-Pylon-Semipalatinsk-Test-Site-Kazakhstan-2022.jpg?x=800&y=800)
Semipalansk Test Site, Kazakhstan, 2022
© Eddo Hartmann
For his latest multimedia project, The Sacrifice Zone, Dutch photographer Eddo Hartmann visited Kazakhstan’s expansive steppe – documenting its landscape and communities, and even venturing into the epicentre of the USSR’s nuclear test zone: for decades, the area known as ‘the polygon’ (which is accessible only with protective clothing) was used for the most destructive nuclear tests ever held on the surface of the Earth, with no consideration for the local population.
His extraordinary portraits, landscape images and films are now on view at Amsterdam’s Huis Marseille, continuing until 25 February 2024.
![Eddo Hartmann. Black Pylon, Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, 2022](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550419/Eddo-Hartmann-Black-Pylon-Semipalatinsk-Test-Site-Kazakhstan-2022.jpg?x=800&y=800)
Semipalansk Test Site, Kazakhstan, 2022
© Eddo Hartmann
![Eddo Hartmann. Blue Guard, Priozersk, Kazakhstan, 2019](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550420/Eddo-Hartmann-Blue-Guard-Priozersk-Kazakhstan-2019.jpg?x=800&y=800)
Priozersk, Kazakhstan, 2019
© Eddo Hartmann
![Eddo Hartmann. Edelweiss, Priozersk, Kazakhstan, 2019](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550421/Eddo-Hartmann-Edelweiss-Priozersk-Kazakhstan-2019.jpeg?x=800&y=800)
Priozersk, Kazakhstan, 2019
© Eddo Hartmann
![Eddo Hartmann. Farmer, Zhidebay, Kazakhstan, 2019](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550422/Eddo-Hartmann-Farmer-Zhidebay-Kazakhstan-2019.jpg?x=800&y=800)
Zhidebay, Kazakhstan, 2019
© Eddo Hartmann
![Eddo Hartmann. Grey Bukhanka, Lake Shagan, Kazakhstan, 2023](https://lfi-online.de/webfile/img/8550423/Eddo-Hartmann-Grey-Bukhanka-Lake-Shagan-Kazakhstan-2023.jpg?x=800&y=800)
Lake Shagan, Kazakhstan, 2023
© Eddo Hartmann