Unintended archival {photo}traces of the nuclear age

Side effect is an unintended consequence – in this case, an unintended photographic meaning, evoked from within the archive. Shadowed in IAEA archives by documentation of peaceful applications of nuclear energy, these photographs show the way how people, connected to the institution, used camera for understanding their own experience. These are unforeseen, lost and often anonymous photographic traces of the world seen and experienced through the eyes of nuclear photographer– where and when, behind the camera, he became an explorer of the world. An archival side effect reveals how photographic practice within the international institution went beyond documentation of civilian nuclear energy applications and captured unexpected connections between places and times, humans and nature, across decades.

Current exhibition is an artistic perspective on archival material from International Atomic Energy Agency archives. This is an independent artistic and curatorial project. It does not represent the views or official positions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or its archive.