LA-based photographer Gerd Ludwig has been recording the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the last two decades. Here, Artillery presents a selection of Ludwig’s most recent images, focusing on the ghost town of Pripyat. The near-classically surreal tableaus shown in Ludwig’s new work are the result not merely of the meltdown itself, but also of the following decades of disaster tourism, legal and otherwise. Furniture, gas masks, dolls, toys, books, clothes, papers, and the thousand appurtenances of everyday life have been disrupted and rearranged by first the catastrophe and then the scavengers, taggers, gawkers, and vloggers that came to witness what it had wrought. Ludwig’s photographs become behind-the-scenes photographs revealing the arrangements of other, now-vanished photographers just as those previous photographers were themselves attempting to summon the ghost of Pripyat’s now-vanished inhabitants. The resulting images show the Chernobyl horror not only through the darkened glass of lost time but through the funhouse mirrors of human invention, expectation, and exploitation.