Mida

Musa, a 61-year-old portrait artist from Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic, poses at the studio.
Musa has been working as an artist in Barcelona’s busiest street La Rambla for 26 years.

Musa

Jorge

Irina

Julia, who was my nanny when I was a kid, poses in her apartment’s bedroom in the town of Korolyov in the Moscow Region, where she has lived since 1937. She was ten years old when the Second World War changed the lives of her and her family. Despite her difficult childhood, the years of starvation and the loss of her father, she still managed to get a higher education and winnumerous ski competitions. After graduation, she worked in the field of power engineering her whole life and raised a son on her own. Now she is retired and lives alone in a three-room apartment. Her son is a priest, who comes to visit her several times a year. May 2018.

Julia

Jose lives alone in his small apartment in Havana; his son moved to the US, as many young Cubans do, so Jose hasn’t seen him for a very long time. He has his son’s pictures hanging on the wall — as a lasting reminder of him.

Jose

A young poet from the town of Pushkin captured in winter 2022. A few weeks later, he would end up reading poems in a police riot van to those who also got detained on the first day of the war, together with his future wife and an 81-year-old lady who had survived the siege of Leningrad.

Nikita

A local sits on a bench in Khor Virap, an Armenian monastery located in the Ararat Plain in Armenia, near the border with Turkey. August 2018.

Stranger

A backstage shot taken at an abandoned Soviet factory while I was working on the "Young Cuba” project, a tribute to young energy and change.

Skater Boy

Ms. Hannah and Ms. Loan, young school teachers from the town of Phúc Yên. I photographed the girls while working on my personal documentary project on femininity and beauty standards in Vietnam.

Ms. Hannah and Ms. Loan