Eastern Partnership Photography
Valentyn
Aleksandrov
from Luhansk,
now a refugee in Starobilsk
The man pictured by Valentyn Alexandrov from Ukraine – a monk wearing sneakers and holding a plastic bag with the US
dollar sign on it – is no highly unconventional. Surprisingly, the outstanding character was matched by ambiguous behavior,
and dollars in the monk’s hands (to be
exact, the plastic bag with the picture of
the one-dollar bill on it) have some preternatural meaning. This is how Valentyn himself recollects the moment of taking the
picture: “… when I was photographing, a
thief came to my back and swiped money
from a pocket in my pants. The monk saw
this, but for some reason he remained
speechless. His look reveals the tumult, the
struggle between the good and evil.”
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