Imperial War Museum: ‘Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline’ by Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English/Swedish photojournalist who works for leading editorial publications all over the world on issues relating to women, population and war.

Genesis was honoured to have produced Taylor-Lind’s work as Giclée Fine Art prints with Dibond mounting for her poignant exhibition, Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline, touring to Imperial War Museum North and Imperial War Museum London.

The exhibition features seventeen powerful photographs from her time in Ukraine between 2014 and June 2022, documenting the devastating reality of living amidst conflict. 

Taylor-Lind started working in Ukraine at a pivotal moment in the war. Her photographic output begins with the violent protests of 2014, which, centred in the capital city, Kyiv, led to the removal of a Ukrainian government that chose ties with Russia over the West. Weeks later, Russian forces annexed Crimea before supporting a separatist movement in Donbas and leaving eastern Ukraine divided, with some parts declaring independence. Attempts to reach a settlement failed, and the conflict continued to simmer in Donbas, escalating eventually to outright war when Russia invaded the country in February 2022. 

During this eight-year period, when the attention of much of the world’s media turned elsewhere, Taylor-Lind continued to work in Ukraine, documenting ordinary citizens whose lives have been uprooted by the threat of the frontline, the reality of displacement, and the pain of separation from loved ones.