Diary: Yevgenia Belorusets, “The Stars“ (a story)

Photo: From “Victories of the Defeated,” a cycle of more than 150 photographs and texts created by Yevgenia Belorusets during the 2014 war in Donbas, devoted to post-industrial Ukraine, to work in coal mines on the edge of the war zone, and to contemporary forms of labor amidst military conflict

2016

The days drag on with no meaning. It’s really quiet in A., where we live. Nobody shoots at anybody; nobody asks for explanations for no reason; roadblocks don’t work the way they do at B. Here, you can drive through a roadblock unmolested, especially if you are taking a jitney bus or taxi.

I don’t orient myself well in the city where I’ve spent my whole life.