Darmon Richter

Darmon Richter is a British writer and researcher, whose work focusses on the intersection of architecture and culture. His writing has appeared on a wide range of platforms including Atlas Obscura, Foreign Affairs and CNN – while his photography has been featured by Radio Free Europe, Buzzfeed, Scientific American, and in exhibitions in six countries.

Today Darmon designs and leads tours to communist-era monuments in seven countries and one post-Soviet frozen conflict zone. After making roughly twenty trips into the Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, his debut book – Chernobyl: A Stalkers' Guide (FUEL, 2020) – paints an intimate portrait of the Chernobyl region and its inhabitants, three decades on from the disaster.