Fast food and fist fights: capturing teenage life in Ukraine
- Text by Dominique Sisley
- Photography by Nazar Furyk
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Previously a photojournalist, Nazar was working on the Ukraine frontline in 2015 along with UK photographer (and Huck favourite) Christopher Nunn. However, the trip made him reassess his original ambitions. “I went to see the action that was shown in the work of other photographers who’ve been there, but it was all different,” he remembers. “It was really quiet and neutral. Probably I didn’t get what I was looking for. Then my thoughts about war and war photography changed.”
Now, it seems, his work is focused more on the everyday – though his ambitions remain lofty. “A photo is powerful because of the moments and seconds it was taken,” he adds. “Those moments can shock or turn the world upside down.”
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