Exhibition 3 photographers, Catherine Larré, Anaïs Tondeur, Silvana Reggiardo - Galerie la Ferronne

40 rue de la Folie-Méricourt, 75011 Paris

Anaïs Tondeur's Chornobyl Herbarium project consists of a rayogram for each year since the Chernobyl explosion (26 April 1986), created by the direct imprint of specimens from a radioactive herbarium onto photosensitive plates. These plants were previously grown in the soil of the Exclusion Zone by the team of bio-geneticist Martin Hajduch, who studies the consequences of radioactivity on flora in heavily irradiated areas around the plant. As with many other projects, Anaïs Tondeur draws inspiration from the fragility of early photography, in particular…