50cm x 34cm - 1/8 - 2025 - unframed
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Odessa, Ukraine
A young Ukrainian drag queen by the Black Sea, lighting a cigarette.
A moment of respite between two bombardments.
In Ukraine, as in many Eastern European countries, life is far from easy for drag queens. Homophobia remains widespread. Yet one drag queen once told me that since the beginning of the war with Russia, solidarity among people had grown stronger, extending even to the drag community.
Is this merely a fleeting tolerance, granted only for the duration of a war?
They hope not. They hope that adversity will change certain attitudes, and that some minds will remain open long after the fighting ends.