journal of visual culture https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412918782337 journal of visual culture [journals.sagepub.com/home/vcu] SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne) Copyright © The Author(s), 2015. Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Vol 17(2): 223–237 DOI 10.1177/1470412918782337 Hauntological Environmental Art: The Photographic Frame and the Nuclear Afterlife of Chernobyl in Lina Selander’s Lenin’s Lamp Lisa E Bloom 782337VCU 0 0 10.1177/1470412918782337Hauntological Environmental Art: The Photographic Frame and the Nuclear After-Life of Chernobyl in Lina Selander’s Lenin’s LampBloom research-article 2015 Abstract This article draws attention to how photography is changing art, by imagining a politics through which to structure a future around something other than the failed visions of technological modernization and nuclear expansion. Focusing on the ongoing environmental damage of events such as Chernobyl 32 years later, the author considers the Swedish artist Lina Selander’s ‘Lenin’s Lamp Glows in the Peasant Hut’ to examine how photography and video may work together to address the present and future force of that disaster’s ongoing environmental aftermath with history’s failed Soviet dream of progress. She proposes that ‘Lenin’s Lamp’, in its work with the temporality of material remains and impressions, is a work of hauntological environmental art that engages viewers in hope and dread. How the work stages this dual affective response through its work with the temporalities of photographic and filmic artifacts is the subject of this article. Keywords affect theory • Anthropocene • Chernobyl • ecological art • environmental film • Jacques Derrida • photography • Roland Barthes This article discusses the ecological work of Swedish artist Lina Selander, and in particular Selander’s Lenin’s Lamp Glows in the Peasant’s Hut, a series of 2011 that is composed of a mixed-media installation and a video. I focus primarily on the black-and-white HD video, a 25-minute work also titled Lenin’s Lamp Glows in the Peasant’s Hut, to address the relationship of film