Inside a Remote Russian Mennonite Village | TIME

As a young girl, photographer Mika Sperling, a recipient of the TIME award at the 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop, visited a Russian Mennonite Sunday school in Darmstadt, which she attended until the age of 13. She remembers the pattern of the cushioned benches and the soundproof children rooms, where mothers would sit with their little ones during church service. Years later, she returned to a similar chapel with a camera and the idea for what would become a two-year project capturing these families in Russia, Germany and Canada.