Dnipro, Ukraine, February 2024. Portrait of Masha, aged 63. She rents this furnished apartment with her son. In despair, she can’t collect her pension because all her papers are left in her house in Bakhmout. Since her arrival, she has been receiving monthly assistance for internally displaced persons of UAH 1,580 (around €40). Her son Sacha works in a shop next to their flat.
La Seyne, France, february 2023. Portrait of Boris Cyrulnik at home.
Kyiv, Ukraine, August 2022. Portrait of « Wikipedia » in Kyiv. He was one of the 2,000 soldiers who resisted in the Azovstal plant for several weeks.
Islmabad, Pakistan, August 2023. Portrait of Hania Imran, 19 years old, climate activist based in Islamabad.
Marseille, France, september 2022. Portrait of Aissatou , 29, and her daughter. They have been living here since March 2022. Aissatou has been working as a chambermaid in a hotel since the end of June. She is waiting for an offer of social housing in Lille.
Zhovid, Ukraine, January 2022: Portrait of Oleg, 59, who has worked for 27 years as a border guard at the Bielorussian border in Ukraine.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022. Portrait of Zoé, aged 54. On 20 March 2022, while she was cooking, a missile landed at the foot of her building, sending shards of glass flying across her face and cutting her nose in two. Since then, Zoé has undergone multiple reconstruction operations.
Marseilles, France, September 2022: Portrait of Happy and his son Favour, Nigerians who have been living in a hostel Marseilles since 4 months.
Marseille, France, September 2022. Portrait of Nathalie – After living on the streets for 4 years, she arrived at the hostel in April 2021. She is one of the very first residents.
Marseille, France, September 2022. Portrait of Jessica, 31, who has lived in Marseille for 11 years and has been a resident at the hostel for 5 months.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022. Portrait of Olyia, who has no news of her husband, an Azovstal fighter who was transferred to Olenivka prison in Russia on 15 May.
Lviv, Ukraine, March 2022. Portrait of women on the train to Lviv from Przemysl. These women are returning to Ukraine after leaving their children in the safety of Poland.
DVRZ, Ukraine, march 2022. Portrait of Dima, 16 years old, who was student in Poland and who decided to return in Ukraine few days after the russian invasion.
Paris, France, november 2023. Portrait of Olivier.
Marseille, France, September 2022. Portrait of Angela, 26, who has been living at the hostel in Marseille for 5 months.
DVRZ, on the eastern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2022. Portrait of Gleb, 17-year-old. Before the war, he was a psychology student and dreamed of going abroad. He was still a minor on February 24 and could then leave the country. However, he decided to stay and volunteer. For several weeks and with his friends, he prepared meals and made food distributions in the city.
Karachi, Pakistan, August 2023. Portrait of Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan’s first woman architect. She created Pono Colony, a zero-carbon village, with bamboo and lime buildings that can also withstand flooding.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022. Portrait of Rife, a Byelorussian who has lived in Ukraine since he was 5 years old, with his whole family here. From the very first days of the invasion, he decided to join the Kastous-Kalinowski volunteer battalion. This battalion was fighting the Russian army alongside the Ukrainian forces.
Karachi, Pakistan, August 2023. Portrait of Sheema Kermani. She is a Pakistani classical dancer and social activist.
Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2022. Vladimir, aged 24, has just arrived in Kyiv, where he is staying with a friend. In 2018, after studying cookery at Schastya, he decided to go and work in Sievierodonetsk, which he left in 2021, shortly before his flat was bombed, to move to Zaporijia. After a year there, he also had to flee the town, as his second flat was bombed again. Vladimir has no news of his parents, who live in occupied territory in Stanytsia Luhanska.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022. Portrait of the artist Anton Lohov in front of one of his installations in the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022. Portrait of Olga, 38, who moved to Kyiv in November 2021 for economic reasons, but also because she no longer felt safe in Belarus.
Portrait of Anton Belinskyi. Kyiv, Ukraine, february 2019.