Capital Times article

The Cap Times today has a nice little article about my new Chernobyl exhibit.

Find it here.

radio show on WORT

I'll be doing a one-hour interview about Chernobyl and my After Chernobyl exhibit on A Public Affair, the noontime talk show on WORT (89.9 FM in Madison). Those of you far from Madison can stream the show here: www.wort-fm.org/listen.php

That's Wed. Sept. 16, 12-1 pm CST, or 1-2 pm for you east coasters.

UPDATE:
If you missed the interview, catch it here. (The show starts 5:40 into the hour, after the news.)

Streaming: http://archive.wort-fm.org/pls.php?mp3fil=35450
Download: http://archive.wort-fm.org/mp3/wort_090916_120402apawed.mp3

New Madison photo exhibit

My new Chernobyl photo exhibit is up in Madison, Wisconsin! A big thanks to Rob, Dick and Jon who hung the exhibit! Come check it out.

Madison Municipal Building ARTspace gallery
215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, 1st floor
September 3 to October 30, 2009
Hours: Mon-Fri 7-5, Sat 8-12
(Eves and weekends you can still get in - enter the building via the Doty St. entrance.)

After Chernobyl: photo exhibit

Press Release - September 4, 2009 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

After Chernobyl: Photo Exhibit by Michael Forster Rothbart

If you lived near Chernobyl, would you stay?

Madison photographer Michael Forster Rothbart has just returned from a year in Chernobyl. He received a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to photograph and interview Ukrainians who remain in villages near Chernobyl a generation after the 1986 accident.

After Chernobyl, an exhibit of Forster Rothbart’s documentary photographs, will be displayed for two months...

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Download the press release.