Photographer Yelena Yemchuk photographed the Black Sea city before the war began. A conversation about snobs, gangsters and Putin’s attack.
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Andrian Kreye
It was perhaps the wrong question what Yelena Yemchuk missed most from her childhood in Kyiv after moving to America at the age of eleven. In any case, she briefly bursts into tears, but her answer also contains a lot of what defines her photography. “It was the smell there, the trees. The way my grandmother looked at me. The way the people looked there.”