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People stand on a train platform, pictured in Ukraine. In the 1970s Russia founded the city of Pripyat to build the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After the nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, the city of Slavutych was built on the edge of the 30 km exclusion zone. The clean-up operations around the damaged reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were promoted from here, while the other three reactors were still running. Only in the year 2000 all reactor blocks were shut down completely. People still travel to work to the exclusion zone of Semikhody everyday, as the train station at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is called. In 2015 and 2016 Kazuma Obara travelled along with them and took the train from Slavutych to Semikhody, alltogether four times - at every change of season. In his work he portrays the people on the trains and reveals what they see when they look out the window: a depopulated exclusion zone, which will remain the same for many generations to come. (KEYSTONE/Kazuma Obara)