Highland Book Prize
Hello. Some absolutely huge news this morning: Night Train to Odesa has won the Highland Book Prize. The shortlist was […]
Zarina Zabrisky’s Kherson doc – watch this now
Very occasionally you see a reference to Kherson on the news. A mention of ‘human safari’ taking place there. But
Kharkiv, January 2025 – city of art, city of lights
Read on BBC Radio Scotland, 1st February 2025 They do Christmas lights better than we do, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine,
Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Article published in Prospect Magazine in print on 5th Dec 2024, online on 16th Nov 2024. Only in Kharkiv, ever-changing
Pirate radio from the frontlines with Ukraine’s rockstar poet
Article published in the New European, 27th Jul 2024. Serhiy Zhadan: Nobel Prize nominee, poet, rockstar, and – recently –
Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv
Article published in Prospect Magazine June 2024 A vast city in blackout is, for a moment, beautiful. The starry sky
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‘If Russia can’t take Kharkiv, they will reduce it to rubble’
Article published in the Sunday Post, Sunday 17th Apr 2024. Russia has ramped up attacks on Ukrainian cities in recent
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‘The New Normal’ – profile of Prix-Pictet-nominated photographer Gera Artemova
Article published in the Royal Photographic Society Journal, March 2024, print only. For the last two years images from Ukraine
‘Ukraine’s kids will always be different. Even far from frontline they have trauma’
Article published in the Sunday Post, Sunday 18th Feb 2024, print only. Childhood goes by in a blink of an