In the streets of Kherson, Nery Duarte waves a Canadian flag with signatures and well wishes scrawled in Cyrillic. A former missionary, the 62-year-old…

January 2023

Notes on YouTube, obsession, creativity, and criticism.
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December 2022

Rather than a landscape of misery, what I've found in Ukraine are brilliant examples of what it means to resist, by ordinary people whose lives…
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November 2022

As in all things, the ultimate prize is peace. To secure it, we must resist any reactionary policies that may escalate regional conflict to imminent…
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July 2022

I met Chrystyna and Anna, two Ukrainian student volunteers, standing outside the border gate separating Poland and Ukraine. We later met up to talk…

June 2022

A collection of portraits taken at the Polish-Ukrainian border, some in Krakow.
Helen left Crimea alone in 2018 to escape to Poland, fleeing Russian influence and corruption. Today she lives in Krakow, where we met for an interview.
I met Senam and his daughter in a hotel lobby in Krakow, Poland. While Kyiv is still home to most of their possessions, in some ways Kyiv has taken…

May 2022

Karina is from Luhansk, a Russian-occupied breakaway region in the far east of Ukraine. We met in Warsaw, Poland, in April, through a mutual friend…
"Ukraine will never forgive Russians for their crimes. Their army is savage. I would say that they are like animals, but it would be too nice to call…
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April 2022

Oliver is a traveller and former banker from Belgium. We met in Medyka, a village on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where we were volunteering with the…
Feather is a student at the University of Toronto. We met in Medyka, a town on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where she had been assisting with the…