Ukraine

As the work prepares to be shown at Photo London, writer Serhiy Morgunov, photographer Jesse Glazzard, and creative producer Eugenia Skvarska reflect on what it was like to document the lives of queer soldiers during Ukraine's fight against Russia.

Editor-in-Chief Matthew Whitehouse on THE FACE's winter cover stars: Ukraine's queer soldiers, Yeat, Amelia Gray and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.

In a country fully mobilised against an existential threat to its existence, Ukraine’s queer soldiers are on the frontline of a fight for acceptance. Until recently, their presence and struggles remained largely invisible.

Volunteering in a freezing cold war zone isn’t for everybody. But it’s an integral part of photographer Aria Shahrokhshahi’s life and work.

Between 2018 and 2020, Gena Kagermanov documented residents of the Donbas, capturing tender, fleeting portraits of life amid war.

On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, we revisit the Ukrainian TikTokers who went viral after documenting the war’s brutal realities.