Documenting Ukraine with a Different Visual Approach – The New York Times

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Documenting Ukraine with a Different Visual Approach

Thomas de Wouters’ square, black-and white images of Ukraine look as if they were made by a 1960s-era New York street photographer set loose on the modern-day front between Russia and Ukraine.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/documenting-ukraine-with-a-different-visual-approach/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

The Belgian photographer Thomas de Wouters took a less-traveled route last April, traveling through multiple checkpoints on damaged roads to Luhansk — a forlorn city that now bears scars of the continuing war.