“Hope gives you the strength to act.” Photographer Mary Gelman's portraits of Russians protesting the war in Ukraine, despite facing beatings, jail, and losing their livelihoods
hen words are so closely controlled that it’s a crime to call a war a war, what drives someone to speak out?
Undergirding all these feelings, however, is an enduring hope: a dream of a better, freer Russia, and an end to the“Hope gives you the strength to act,” says Mary Gelman, the Russian photojournalist who made these portraits. “If you think that everything is doomed and you are nothing, you become a very comfortable instrument for the regime.”‘There’s an Atmosphere of Fear.
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