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Women, Escapism & Prophecies
Hello subscribers! Contrary to what you will have expected from the closing remarks in my previous Newsletter sent last Sunday, here’s another Newsletter much sooner than even I would have thought. But trawling through my archives of photos from Ukraine, I came across a series of photos of political cartoons so fitting now that I wanted to share them right away – see below. Also going through my photos I found several images of the marvellous Rodina Mat statue (aka Motherland Monument), two of which I used for Tuesday’s new Blog post on International Women’s Day. This post also included the photo featured above. By playing with perspective I made it look like the guns in the foreground are dwarfing and threatening Rodina Mat – a photographic composition that suddenly takes on a fitting symbolism for the current situation in Ukraine … And yesterday I added yet another new Blog post, this time on countering my unhealthily excessive “doomscrolling” with a form of escapism – namely by looking at a travel destination about as far away from my home and Ukraine as is possible: Easter Island, for which I posted a whole photo essay – do take a look. Also worth a look is this latest media article, which is partly based on a recent interview with me and also features my book.
But now for the promised political cartoons. When I visited Kyiv in May 2015 prior to my second trip to Chernobyl, I came across an open-air exhibition of works by various political cartoonists. And quite a few of those can now only be interpreted as nothing short of prophetic. As I wouldn’t put works by other artists on my public Blog or website I share them this way, “in private”, as it were, just for my circle of Newsletter readers. Here we go – without any further comment, as they all speak for themselves.
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