Mick Hartley

Photographer Viktoria Sorochinski, now based in Germany, was born in Ukraine, and has happy memories of visiting her grandparents in a small village near Kiev. On returning, years later, she found the old villages dying, with only the elderly clinging on, neglected by the government and often abandoned by their families.

From her series Lands of No Return:

[Photos © Viktoria Sorochinski}

Reminiscent of Bert Teunissen's Domestic Landscapes project, where he photographed the disappearing interiors of old Europe using only natural light – including Ukraine.

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