As we approach the anniversary of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, it feels fitting to talk a little about a small but monumentally important exhibition at IWM London, which I’ve been working on for the past couple of months.
Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline brings together 17 extraordinarily powerful and moving photographs by the talented photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind. She’s been capturing the lives of ordinary citizens in Ukraine since the protests of 2014. In the eight years since then, she’s continued to document the reality of displacement and the pain of separation of loved ones that’s happened as a result of the war. Anastasia explained to me recently that she wants her photographs to feel as relevant to someone living in Hackney as to someone living in Kyiv, and for them to be seen by as many people as possible.