blacklisted on saturday may 9th taken from my camera at rosemount hotel, perth, Australia
time flies
“Too used to scraping the bottom of the upper class pot,spewing rhetoric. And so , the cestoda latches to the bread-winner’s heart. what a fucking joke”
This song is about pseudo political rich kids claiming to be socially and politically active while living in opposition to what they preach about. Definitely inspired by someone specific.
UKRAINE. Kiev. February 2014. Women prepare Molotov cocktails for the anti-government demonstrators during the Euromaidan Revolution.
Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
UKRAINE. Kiev. February 2014. Portraits of Euromaidan protesters. [Part 11]
The Ukrainian Revolution of February 2014 took place in Ukraine when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kiev, culminated in the ousting of pro-Russia Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in favour of the EU.
First photograph: Valentina Piccinni/Redux
All other photographs: Jean-Marc Caimi/Redux
Photograph 1: A man from Vinnycja in the Carpathian region of Ukraine. He works as a professional security guard and has been in the Maidan from the very beginning of the protests. He is convinced that the protesters will win their fight for freedom.
Photograph 2: A 20-year-old railway worker from the Cherkasy region was surprised by his own courage during the clashes. He says the media has left the rural regions of Ukraine in the dark about the protests.
Photograph 3: An ex–Afghan war fighter. With a group of other ex-soldiers, he went to Maidan to train ordinary people in self-defence tactics to reduce the risk of being hurt or killed in clashes with government special forces.
Photograph 4: A 21 years old young man patrolling Khreshchatyk street, near Maidan square. In his normal life he’s a student of economics. He fights for his future and the freedom of Ukraine.
Photograph 5: An nineteen years old kid is patrolling an important barricade up the hill of Instytuska street, a strategic spot.
Photograph 6: This young man is from Ivano-Frankivs'k, a West Ukraine region. In his normal life he’s working as a businessman involved in the medical field. He came to Maidan the 21st of January. He is now in service in Hrushevs'koho street, near the main barricades.
SYRIA. Rojava (Western Kurdistan). Al-Hasakah governorate. Near Serê Kaniyê/Ral al-Ayn. November 6, 2013. A Kurdish female fighter from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) checks her weapon after capturing it from Islamist rebels (al-Nusra Front).
Photograph: Reuters
