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Meet Joe, the Green Man

Last night Sylwia and I caught a glimpse of the Green Man resting in the forest. Well okay, we took his portrait. Joe was utterly charming and patient with us while we experimented in the forest on tank traps left over from World War Two.

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Beltane Part 2 – the preparations

I have made a small selection of some of the pictures that Sylwia and I took of the preparations for Beltane. An enormous amount of effort, dedication and organisation went into the weeks in the run up. It is fascinating to see these Celtic pagan traditions being kept alive, and reinterpreted, in a modern context…

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Beltane Fire Festival

Last week Sylwia and I photographed Beltane, the ancient Celtic festival welcoming the onset of summer (or spring, depending on your point of view  - anyway, the relatively warm part of the year) as part of a project that we are working on at the moment. We photographed some of the preparations as well as…

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Tanya in the Trust Room, Chernigiv AIDS Centre

Tanya has the unenviable job of letting people know the results of their HIV tests. This is the room where she tells them, called the ‘Trust Room’. Because of discrimination against people with HIV, people lose their jobs, can be ostracised from society, and even lose access to social services such as healthcare if news…

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An unlikely angel

I’e been revisiting the images from “Time Out in Holiday Street”, about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. When I took them, I wasn’t running a blog and so only showed the images with short captions. But the words of the people I photographed (interviewed by the wonderful Oksana Shved – the dodgy translation however is…

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