Photography Journal
Unbroken in Ukraine
“We won’t allow the war to steal our youth years.”
Pictures from Ukraine in 2024
Voices of refugees
Two weeks into the war I found myself documenting the refugee crisis on the borders of Ukraine — in Hungary, Moldova, and Romania. There I was documenting disaster response, taking pictures and filming interviews with the refugees
I can see the whole world
Nearly blind and homebound, Victor lives alone in a small apartment and requires constant care. He has a developmental disability that makes him see the world like a young child and stay vulnerable and innocent.
Zabereg photo project: Accomplishment
A long-term project about disappearing villages along Pinega river in Russia resulted in a photo book and an exhibition
When honouring is painful
"Better late than never" conception doesn't work when it comes to the acknowledgment of injustice. No monuments, books or movies can heal the pain after a person is gone. Eleonora's father, Sasha Pechersky, was a true hero, a leader of an uprising at Sobibor Nazi camp who saved dozens of Jewish lives. He should have been praised on all corners. Instead, he was ignored and humiliated. 30 years after his death the country is trying to fix this.
Photographing an interview
How to conduct challenging interviews while taking pictures? I’m sharing the experience of combining the two roles on humanitarian photography assignments
Wow, what a year! My photo take on 2020
Here is a collection of the pictures I’ve taken in 2020. They will remind me of all the ups and downs of that year.
“My name is Matvey-and-Ignat”
A moment in the life of a large family from Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The last bus
Pinega region of Northern Russia is a place where anything has the potential to become “the last” in retrospect. Here’s a bus that suffered this fate.
Nursed and being nursed
Among all the amazing people who get help from the JDC in the former Soviet Union there is an extraordinary category: nurses. They spent their lives helping others and then found themselves in need of nursing.
Soviet era home
Decades passed after the Soviet empire collapsed, but thousands of households are still keeping furniture, decor and houseware purchased in 1960s-1980s. Apartments turned into museums of Soviet lifestyle mainly because their owners simply couldn’t afford any renovations or upgrades.