Chernobyl – Remember the aftermath

Waiting for the book to be delivered from the printer… I’m happy to show the book cover.

If you still have to order (for free or not) visit the website www.whiteness.ch

If you’re a backer and didn’t get my email at the beginning of the month you can contact me with your information at info@whiteness.ch

For everyone else who is interested the book is available to order on https://www.whiteness.ch

It seems I’m pretty unlucky, the book had to be printed in October, then November, then December etc… the last deadline to ship my books to you was today, for the Chernobyl anniversary… but the printer didn’t receive the paper yet (and didn’t tell me). In theory (hope so!) the book will be printed next Monday, so I can ship it during May/June (I still have to receive the books from the printing house).

I’ll contact personally the backers to provide a code, so they can order the book and receive it at their updated shipping address.

I worked with two different editors during last 12 months… had again a lot of problems, delays, price increase etc… but finally the project is very close to be printed… if nothing else happen (and I hope not) it will be send to print during next days. As soon I receive the confirmation I’ll contact all backers to check/update their addresses. Thank you again for waiting. But you’ll be happy to see the result :)

Hello everybody, I would like to inform that the project is not dead. I can understand that waiting could be irritating (I crowdfunded project too), but I had some «problem» on the way. The editor who was interested in publishing the book disappeared and the photographer I paid for the editing disappeared too. That means I need to do everything alone, and the cost will be higher as expected, but as I don’t want to ask for more money to the community, I just need more time to save money to invest on this project. I contacted a book designer a couple of years ago but asked many thousands euros (only for the design), so I had to skip. I also need to self publish the book, but, as you can imagine, this has a cost too. I could easily do a book just using an online service, print 20 books for the reward, but I prefer to wait and do something more interesting, first of all to me, but also to you. I will try to give extra reward as everything will be finish, to thank you for the patience.

During last years I also invested a LOT of time (and money) to grow LuganoPhotoDays, the photo festival I founded in 2012. I know this isn’t related to my Chernobyl project directly, but as you founded a photo book, maybe you’re happy to know there is this kind of festival too, where I also give visibility to other crowdfunded photo project.

I’m willing to answer to all your questions, also by email (maybe it’s easier than the comments). My contact is marco.cortesi@gmail.com

All the best and thank you again for your patience. Marco Cortesi

In one week I’ll be back to Chernobyl again for some days to finally continue my project!

Grazie! Thank you! Merci! Danke!

Thank you everybody in supporting this project and helping me to get it real!

It’s still possible to back the project during next 4 days. With more than 100% I can stay there longer and do an even more in-depth project.

Thank wemakeit.ch to post the project on the homepage!

Thank you!

47% financed in 12 days. Almost the half. Thank you so much! Please continue to support this project and share it to everybody could be interested, so it can reach 100%.

Some days ago I was speaking with a VII photographer who went there many times, he gave me some useful information.