Ukrainian Refugees in Medyka, Przemysl and Krakow.
In March 2022, less than a month after Vladimir Putin’s brutal, unprovoked assault on the sovereign nation of Ukraine, I travelled to Medyka, the major border crossing between Poland and Ukraine to spend seven days documenting the flood of refugees crossing the border with nothing more than a few bags of belongings and the clothes on their backs. They came by car, bus, train and on foot. The exodus continued twenty-four hours a day, almost all women and children. All the men remained behind to fight. My photography captures both the refugees and the heroic work of aid workers from around the world who put their lives on hold to travel to the border and help in any way they could. I can’t say enough about the Polish people who opened the border, their homes and their hearts to make desperate and shell-shocked people comfortable and welcome.
