REFLECTIONS ON A YEAR IN UKRAINE
Over a year has passed since my feet touched the ground in Ukraine and my life will never be the same without this experience. I have traveled and travailed across this country with some of the most amazing people I could ever know. I have come to say, Ukraine isn’t just the beautiful land. It is the people of this land that make the experience so profound.
In the process of taking in the experience, I always kept my cameras busy documenting the world around me. This included the beauty of the culture and the devastation of the war to eliminate that identity at it’s core.
THEN CAME THE TERROR OF WAR
The destruction of so many areas of Ukraine led to travels to each corner of the country. There were so many strikes across the country from air power and many cities, towns and villages destroyed by ground forces battling across the north, east and south.
In the opening months of the war, I traveled back to Kyiv, then on to see the devastation in Bucha, Irpin, Borodyanka, Makariv and Moshchun. Later, I to Kharkiv, Mala Rohan, Olkhavka to see the impact on the northeast. Then to Izyum to bear witness to the mass graves and stories of torture.
After the first of the year, I traveled to Dnipro, Bilohirvka, Chornobaivka and Kherson.
