"In 2022, twenty-one-year-old Tanya choked back tears as she held her boyfriend's hand for what could be the last time. Crouching down to reach her, the military fatigue-clad Volodimir stands on a train headed for the city of Kramatorsk in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. He's on his way to the battlefield to fight Russia's invasion. Taken by Ilvy Nijokiktijen, the photo capturing this heartwrenching moment is one of nearly 200 included in a book and large-scale exhibition at Fenix, a new art museum"
"Spanning documentary, portraits, and photojournalism, the included images emerge from 136 photographers in 55 countries across 120 years. Providing such an expansive perspective of movement connects myriad experiences-from a Ukrainian soldier off to war to a young Afghan refugee to a poverty-stricken mother and her children-and is an attempt to broaden how we think of migration. "In every era, there has been movement of people,"
A photograph of a young Ukrainian couple—Tanya and Volodimir—captures a soldier leaving by train for the Donbas, emblematic of migration's human consequences. The Family of Migrants pairs nearly 200 images in a book and large-scale exhibition at Fenix museum, tracing movement from 1905 to the present. The compilation includes documentary, portrait, and photojournalistic work from 136 photographers in 55 countries across 120 years. The selection highlights varied drivers of migration, including war, economic crisis, exile, internment, and the search for opportunity, and aims to expand perspectives beyond numbers and politics to lived human experiences.
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