Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy A book by photographer-reporter Pierpaolo Mittica is informative, impassioned and unforgettable. Here we have 20 images plus a book review. Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy A book by photographer-reporter Pierpaolo Mittica is informative, impassioned and unforgettable. Here we have 20 images plus a book review. Chernobyl has demonstrated that the earth is too small a place for a nuclear accident to happen. Chernobyl is not the past, Chernobyl is not history, Chernobyl is the beginning. With these words, photographer/author Pierpaolo Mittica states the premise of his passionate personal mission to investigate, research, document and expose the catastrophe that remains and continues 21 years after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in 1986.