Anastasia Taylor-Lind eschews reportage for quietly effective portraiture on the front line of the anti-government protestsWhen the photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind arrived in Kiev on 1 1 February 2014, protesters had been assembling in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) daily for almost three months to voice their collective impatience with their staunchly pro-Russian president. Over that time, tensions had risen and violence had flared sporadically because of the often brutal reaction of the police, who ruthlessly applied new anti-protest laws, abducted anti-government activists and regularly launched attacks on the protesters.Taylor-Lind found herself in the midst of a situation fast approaching an explosively …read more
Source: The Guardian
