Young people of Odessa, Ukraine, are apparently very fond of playing twister. Not even the rain that started in the middle of their favorite game could spoil their fun. Just have a look at their happy smiling faces and you’ll see how much do they enjoy this game. It’s really nice seeing these kind of images coming from Ukraine after all those sad ones showing young people and children troubled with drugs and AIDS. This means that there is still hope in Ukraine.
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Ukranian drug addicts
When we’re talking about the high percent of HIV infected people, we usually talk about Africa, and nobody mentions the Eastern Europe and Ukraine. But the sad truth is that there are many people especially young people in Kiev that have left their home and live in abandoned buildings and abuse drugs. Many or almost all of them have HIV and are living in really terrible conditions. Have a look at these sad and moving photos and you’ll see it all, because the picture is worth a thousand words.
Artek the post-soviet summer camp
Claudine Doury is a French artist and photographer born in Blois, headquartered in Paris. She received the Leica Oscar Barnack in 1999, the World Press and the price Paris Match in 2000 for her series “Peoples of Siberia”. By 2004, she received the award Yan planet EARTH Niepce and the price for her whole work. Her first monograph, Peoples of Siberia, was published in 1999 by Seuil.She also published Artek, a summer in the Crimea (ed.de La Martiniere, 2004) and Loulan Beauty (The Oak, 2007). She is represented by Galerie Camera Obscura in Paris and is a member of the agency VII.
