Transit Ukraine: After the Revolution
George Georgiou
Ukraine
After the successful “Orange Revolution”, when millions stood for weeks on Kiev's Independence Square to demand a free and fair vote during the Presidential elections,
Ukraine has plunged from one political crises to another. As various interested parties play out the politics of power, people continue to struggle to make ends meet.
With this in mind I decided to look at the economic and social impact on the people of Ukraine. I decided to approach this away from the City Centres with their concentration of Government buildings, shops, restaurants, clubs and tourist sights.
As the country is going through a transition or a method of transit from one system to another, I thought it would be appropriate to play on this notion of transit by moving through the country on public transport, photographing as people move from Home to work, shopping, going out and selling goods around the transport hubs.
This allowed me to move through the towns and Cities in a random manner, taking and photographing from buses, trolleybuses, trams and trains the daily lives of Ukrainians, moving from the centre to the residential areas and city outskirts and back.
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Trolleybus No.5, Odessa, Ukraine...
Trolleybus No.5, Odessa, Ukraine.
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A small train station near Odess...
A small train station near Odessa
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Bus 2, Kiev, Ukraine....
Bus 2, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Tolleybus No.5, Outer Suburbs, K...
Tolleybus No.5, Outer Suburbs, Kiev.
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Bus 22, Kiev...
Bus 22, Kiev
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Small train station in Central U...
Small train station in Central Ukraine. Kiev to Donetsk train.
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Tolleybus No.3, Outer Suburbs, K...
Tolleybus No.3, Outer Suburbs, Kiev.
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Tolleybus No.37, Outer Suburbs, ...
Tolleybus No.37, Outer Suburbs, Kiev.
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Bus 22, Kiev, Ukraine....
Bus 22, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Trollybus No.7, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.7, Donetsk.
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Train station between Donetsk an...
Train station between Donetsk and Kherson, Ukraine.
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Trollybus No.17, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.17, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.9, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.9, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No15, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No15, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.11, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.11, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.17, Donetsk region
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Trollybus No.17, Donetsk region
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Tram No.21, Donetsk.
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Tram No.21, Donetsk.
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Trolley bus between Simferopol a...
Trolley bus between Simferopol and Yalta, Crimea.
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A small town in the Crimea taken...
A small town in the Crimea taken from the bus going from Simferopol to Kherson.
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A small town in the Crimea taken from the bus going from Simferopol to Kherson.
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Trolleybus No.1, Kherson. A Nava...
Trolleybus No.1, Kherson. A Naval training town and port on the River Dnipro, Southern Ukraine.
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Trollybus No.2, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.2, Donetsk.
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Trolleybus No.6, Kherson. ...
Trolleybus No.6, Kherson.
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Trolley bus between Simferopol a...
Trolley bus between Simferopol and Yalta, Crimea.
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Tram No.3, Circus building, Done...
Tram No.3, Circus building, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.9, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.9, Donetsk.
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Bus No.2, In the background is a...
Bus No.2, In the background is a Soviet era Hotel, Kherson.
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Trolleybus No1, Kherson. ...
Trolleybus No1, Kherson.
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Trolleybus No.8, City Centre, Od...
Trolleybus No.8, City Centre, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Bus no 6, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Bus no 6, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Trolleybus No.6, City Centre, Od...
Trolleybus No.6, City Centre, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Trolleybus No.13, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Trans Ukraine, 2005
Trollybus No11, Donetsk.
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Tolleybus No.37, Outer Suburbs, Kiev.
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Trolley bus between Simferopol a...
Trolley bus between Simferopol and Yalta, Crimea.
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Trans Ukraine, 2005
Coal miners at a tolleybus stop, Donetsk.
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Trans Ukraine, 2005
Trollybus Stop, the bus shelter is covered with for sale leaflets, Donetsk region
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Tram No 2, Donetsk.
The industri...
Tram No 2, Donetsk.
The industrial coal city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. The majority of the population is ethnically Russian and aligns itself with Russia.
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Bus 26, Kiev, Ukraine...., 2005
Bus 26, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Trollybus No 8, Donetsk.
Trollybus No 8, Donetsk.
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Trolley bus between Simferopol a...
Trolley bus between Simferopol and Yalta, Crimea.
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Tram 11, Donetsk. The industrial...
Tram 11, Donetsk.
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Trollybus No.14, Donetsk. The in...
Trollybus No.14, Donetsk.
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