‘The protesters would go over to him and chat – as if he was just painting a river’I studied Soviet politics at college, and the first thing I did when I finished was go to Ukraine. The Soviet Union had just collapsed and I wanted to document what was happening to the proletariat – especially the miners – in the Donbass region, now Ukraine’s rustbelt. I stayed with a mining family and followed their lives. It turned into a four-year project. Ukrainian politics can be quite murky. I kept an eye on it all over the years. In February 2014, …read more
Source: The Guardian
