Growing Old Amid Shelling and Frostbite in Ukraine – The New York Times

Growing Old Amid Shelling and Frostbite in Ukraine

Paula Bronstein’s images of conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region focuses on an often neglected group — the older population.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/lens/elderly-ukraine-russia-conflict.html

To look at Paula Bronstein’s images of the elderly people trapped in Ukraine is to see lives frozen by conflict. Through bitterly cold winters, residents board up their windows and try to avoid shelling and frostbite. When the ground thaws in the summer, those who are physically able tend to their gardens before being sent back inside to stay out of firing range.