While he isn't actually an artist, Sergei is a biologist that takes many photos of the wildlife in person and sets up game cameras while studying the wildlife in Chernobyl. Which was the site of a nuclear accident in 1986 and the 300,000 people living around it evacuated and left it completely to the wildlife. This place was once a power plant and farm land and is now wetland and forest. Chernobyl is now the largest wildlife sanctuary in Europe. Sergei has been taking pictures of the animals there since 1995.
I choose this because it was a place that was dominated by people and ruined by a nuclear accident, but after people left nature and wildlife came back very quickly and have reclaimed it. His photos from inside 'the zone', as it's called, show wildlife thriving in the wake of nuclear activity.
http://nuclearno.com/text.asp?16855
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/life-after-chernobyl-sergei-gaschaks-photography-from-inside-the-zone-8467725.html?action=gallery&ino=3
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