War and Diaspora

• Photographer
  Aliona Kuznetsova
• Agency / Studio
  Aliona Kuznetsova Photography
• Photo Date
  2022

For us Ukrainians in America, the first month of the war was surreal. To walk through the idyllic parks and downtown streets and see happy families playing with their children, couples enjoying picnics in the sun, while our families, and thousands like them, were sitting in the basement with no water and light, trying to ignore the sounds of missiles hitting other houses nearby. None of it felt real - we were feeling like a prop in a movie, detached from reality, not fitting into either of the two worlds. Overlay pictures - news and CNN documentary