russia

In the late 90’s I read an article in the Sunday Times about a city in Russia, Ekaterinburg, that had declared a zero tolerance stance on intravenous drug use. The approach seemed extreme – and the more I looked into it the more I became intrigued.

It also seemed that Russia had an almost underground problem with very fast rates of infection of HIV.

A few months later I got on a plane for the first of many trips to and from Russia and then Ukraine over the next decade or so.

Ultimately I ended up meeting and getting somewhat sucked into the lives of a group of homeless children in Ukraine – but looking through contact prints from yesteryear made me want to pull together an edit from my first couple of years work in Russia.