At 9.15am on Friday October 21 1966 a mountain of coal-waste collapsed burying a junior school in the valley below. 116 children were killed and Aberfan was one of the world’s first televised disasters. In his New York apartment, Life Magazine photojournalist Chuck Rapoport sat down with his wife and new baby and switched on his TV. Within days he was on his way to record life in ‘a town without children.” But some children had survived. Now 40 years on, they are ready to tell their stories and Rapoport is returning to photograph them. |
