SUBSCRIBE:
Anthropologists view war and peace not as opposites but as something that is happening simultaneously. War is happening, but normal life, or so-called normal life or normalized life, it's happening alongside war. And so we want to show not just the spectacular events, but also how people live through it on a day-to-day level. But then the ethical question is how to do it without without normalizing it.
-- Alisa Sopova on Making Peace Visible
In Ukraine, war reporting that feels personal
with Anastasia Taylor-Lind and writer Alisa Sopova
Olena Sheremet bringing flowers to lay in memory of a protester, Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Anna Dedova, 75, at the grave of her son, Anastasia Taylor-Lind..
A bus departing from Kurakhovo to Donetsk, Anastasia Taylor-Lind..
EPISODE NOTES
Photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind and writer Alisa Sopova create intimate, accessible portraits of Ukrainian civilians living close to the frontlines of the Russian invasion. Sometimes their subjects are picnicking in a park or tending a garden. Other times, they’re repairing a ceiling damaged by shelling or waiting for departure on an evacuation train. Anastasia and Alisa have been working together in Ukraine since the Maidan Revolution, also known as the “Revolution of Dignity” in 2014. And over the years, they’ve returned to visit the same families, witnessing how the war touches men, women, and children over time.
An exhibition of their work in Ukraine is showing at the Imperial War Museum in London from February 3 through May 8, 2023.
Independent Project
5K From the Frontline (ongoing)
Welcome to Donetsk
International media work:
NPR: The Ukraine war isn't new. These intimate photos show 3 families enduring it for years
The New Humanitarian: How seven years of war and COVID-19 split Ukraine in two
The New York Times: Opinion: Where There Are Fish in the Tap Water and Women’s Uteruses Fall Out
Time Magazine: The Strange Unreality of Life During Eastern Ukraine's Forgotten War