Originally, Anastasia Taylor-Lind travelled to the Ukraine in 2014 as part of an ongoing project called "Negative Zero", documenting the effects of population decline in Europe. Her arrival in the Ukraine coincided with the "Euromaidan Revolution" which started in February of that year and resulted in the ousting of the then President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Anastasia started to cover the revolution, producing a series of portraits which became the widely acclaimed book "
Maidan: Portraits from the Black Square" published by GOST.
Anastasia has now relocated to the Ukraine and is working on a new project about the war there. As part of this she recently posted on her social media accounts that she would be sending postcards as part of the project, inviting her followers to sign up to recieve one. So far she has already sent out hundreds of them around the world. One of them came to me as I had signed up to be a part of this.
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| This is the postcard I recieved from Anastasia Taylor-Lind. |
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| This is the message she wrote on the back. |
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| This is the Imageblend I created after grabbing a shot of a gorgeous sunset in Leominster last night. |
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| This was Anastasia's response to my Instagram post. |
As she said, unexpected and poignant. For me it's kind of poignant that the amount of people who have lost their lives in the conflict equate to the amount of people who have visited my blog from the Ukraine in the past few years. That would be 20% of my audience...gone!
I will be posting more about this in the next couple of months here on my blog.
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