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    • regained paradise
    • Pridnestrovie
    • Think of all the places you could have been
  • space b
    • Dehumanisation
    • From Albania with sun
    • Lviv funeral
    • Ukraine train
    • The virus
    • Belarus protests
    • The Border
    • Home
    • Boasheng Dadi
    • sleeping china
    • A good day for a ride
    • Xiamen plage
    • two monks
    • in between
    • All the places
  • assignments
    • portraits
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      • Refugees >
        • Dunkerque
        • The Jungle
        • Salaam Palace
        • European border
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        • Minor refugees
      • The last ferry
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DEHUMANISATION
For a week I spend photographing Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv. Wanting to create a more subtil image on what war is, I challenged myself with air raid alarms and possible shelling. Besides the fear of terror and constant stress I discovered a kind of 'dehumanisation'. In all it’s meanings. People just go out to walk their dog or to buy food. Kharkiv is a city that has been under siege since the start of the Russian invasion. There is an eerie quietness in these images that show destruction. While walking in the abandoned city that holds normally 1,4 million inhabitants, constant air raid alarms went off and a constant distant shelling was going on. In contrast to the 'quietness' and 'emptinees'.
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