https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/the-most-important-picture daily 0.75 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b40b4a7e-6768-4b81-bfb4-71afefeee4e4/image_1b_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture A different kind of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ccece683-4bee-407b-902d-44a1b41d1360/image_1c_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture Yes, our life is hard and filled with difficulty. We are in an unbearable crisis. Despite that we still exercise and build skills for sports. We will improve ourselves. We will run, climb fences, lift weights, play football and ride the bikes that no one cares for. We won't give up. We will prove to the world that we are still children, adults and old men. We are Syrian refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/612f9341-e64e-4192-89bb-4ac65df394ce/image_1a_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture The fence and the people are woven together into one fabric. Fences are the fabric of our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/340a6de4-506e-40ad-a21c-a57abf661405/image_1d_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture We are in an unbearable crisis. Despite that we still exercise and build skills for sports. We will improve ourselves. We will run, climb fences, lift weights, play football, ride bikes that no one cares for. We will even pull rope. We won't give up. We will prove to the world that we are still children, adults and old men. We are Syrian refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/d7524832-0632-40d6-90a2-3d7e6d97fb74/image_3a_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture This is the most important picture to me because it is for my husband who was killed: "You are the cause of all crises. You are everything in my life. I have to see you even if you are far from me. Inside of me there is a picture no one but I can see, a fire burning my heart a hundred times. I can't tolerate its flame anymore. I have no choice but to picture my agony... and transform it into a little picture the whole world can see." She also wrote "Fire burned my husband and now it wants to burn me. This crisis and pain I have endured. This anguish didn't want to have mercy on me. It burned my husband. Oh I hear his voice in pain and in my dreams. Only fire. It wants to burn me and eat my body, so my soul could embrace his soul.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/6b87e493-7299-406e-b4dc-85fd5fe2dc3c/image_3b_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture Absence From the Family. He is the grandfather of this family. He was the one who produced hope for the family. After the crisis he became a stranger, even to himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/287cd9b4-491d-4ef8-b9c5-a46cb41abd91/image_3c_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture My Child's Smile. I wish this smile were always on his face, so that my heart continues to beat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/cd4751e5-5961-4068-991e-ea044bb5ca0d/image_3d_fatima.jpeg The Most Important Picture "I don't ask for anyone to have mercy on me or take care of me. I only ask you to look at this picture, which shows my reality and tells the story of my life. A life which became full of funeral shrouds and grief... The Kaaba is Black. Nothing compares to it's beauty, but this coffin is white and nothing compares to its ugliness. After so many crises in life, and the ones wrapped in white, during my dreams I can only see my son shrouded in in white." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/4bc1d29f-9110-4b1a-8a7f-263b3bbad799/image_4a_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture A Tearful Laugh. It was simultaneously funny and sad when I asked my mom: “Why did you bring the house keys with you?” And without an answer everyone began to laugh, because these keys are useless. They are the keys to a house that is almost completely destroyed. My mom’s laugh quickly turned into tears... that paved their path onto her cheeks and silenced the sound of that brilliant laugh… I also cried after that scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/fcee91f6-921d-4ac7-b7d1-f0c95a12a61e/image_4b_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture My tent has become my university, a lab, a studio, a theater… And in it I have become the teacher, the professor, the student, the guard, the actor, the dancer, and even the photographer… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b37901c3-778c-4d2a-bd07-39257386fa0f/image_4c_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture I always try to look and listen to the camp from a distance, from a high point, as if I’m an orchestra conductor. I stand for a long time, listening to those amazing musical pieces that carry the sounds of children crying, parents’ angel, laughter, kitchen utensils, food, birds nearby, wood being broken. The musical pieces end with the beginning of the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/57e186e4-4d4a-41fb-a889-5136f036f406/image_4d_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture I, too, am like these caged birds, but they are in a cage, while my chain is the present moment. I no longer know who I am in front of these birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3bd6734c-843f-4235-bbdf-1bac2fdc7d54/image_4e_hany.jpeg The Most Important Picture Pain... Missing... Distance... Adoration... Beauty... Tents... Cold... Hunger... Identity... A Student... An Actor... A Dancer... A Photographer... A City... A Country... A Question... An Exit... No Answer... Hope... A Future... Loss... A Writer... Being away from home... Society... Routine... Return... And a right... Do you hear what my hand is screaming? https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/about daily 0.75 2022-11-23 https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/home daily 1.0 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1719096296090-U3IUYK90HP0XD2CULVZR/JM_UKR_Aftermath.178.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1719096230570-TJE8FLMTD7V1BGSJXJEY/Sarello_28.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1719096325308-EKTZL6NP536QPMBHZGKQ/008_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665105997214-35XBUQS6J9Z6955DLYFT/1_l1001904.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665105997892-YH35XH2N38P29A72W2CX/20_l1002308.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669170954872-YPESQQJZVTT429RT40L2/Lichtenstein01.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669170949041-LTJZB2DX54JAW006I8LP/Lichtenstein18.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669170948747-K070UI6RS0U64YASPH10/Lichtenstein16.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669172185478-OL0ELWQVVA1L3C73B402/ABD019.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669172225216-F3WSWUJ2USNC4B290K12/ABD012.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669172245127-K50OBLHHZEZ6W27SGVKO/ABD006.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665106543980-KBGIP83HSHN4NVF7M0UZ/hany_13.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665106543316-U07NNY3G7LLWMU7KDFRA/hany_02.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665106543342-MA19CYMSUDBN59AJ84LM/fatima_26.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669170542415-SWA035G7G1TFWDNDWJYR/060.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669170543069-24YOP9IBB85BPDV7VI0W/001.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665107549401-0XYHDR3SD6L9KJ3EC0JE/book-3.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665107549422-1M7FA98BSUWMNI8TX39W/book-89.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1665107550345-NEJXL3G6ET2YX6OB1EKP/book-135.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669171252680-07W0HK8X24T0JLUD38SG/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_002.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669171252609-FZYQLCKIBK8ZYD0WOTWD/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_003.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669171263377-V6494E7ZRVV4OYJYHO7D/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_021.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669172531029-BKGT2BUUZ1UBTV50IGTF/Bonet015.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669172521372-O9XA59CDQ4N2YBOT7RB7/Bonet025.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669171860499-C6MQNTGTO6Y9JFID2U9Q/Pine_Ridge_Edit_034.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1669171850532-U7DRDPGRT13QO105N2HZ/WoundedKnee_015.jpeg Home https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/hidden-scars daily 0.75 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/603ee94f-d575-4107-87a3-d7b37acb190e/1_open_wound_page_98_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Grozny, November 1995. The presidential Palace served for many years as the nerve centre of the Chechen resistance. Pdt Dudayev used it as his head-quarters during the defence of Grozny owing to its extensive, well-protected bunkers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/cf66c144-c0d8-431f-9f8f-fe80fd3182a4/2_open_wound_page_61_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Grozny, July 1996. Markha Mutapiloum, 3, lost both her legs - her mother was killed as she triedto shield Markha during a rocket attack. Today Markha lives in Grozny with her father and sister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/dcce28e1-71f0-453d-ad14-931e3a7bf032/3_open_wound_page_67_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Sergenyurt, july 1996. Belita holds a picture of her parents, both of whom died en route to Kazakhstan during Stalin's mass deportation of February 23-29, 1944. Nearly half a million people were gone, and Chechen-Ingushetia region suddenly ceased to exist. In 1994, on the 50th anniversary of Stalin's mass deportation, General Dudayev cited the event as proof of why Russia can never be trusted. He ominously stated: "Over the past two or three hundred years we have always acted on the assumption that Russia wishes to occupy Chechnya and expel the Chechen people from its territory. This factor is always present, consciously or unconsciously." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/e08c1e2e-2873-4502-86f7-930db471d700/6_open_wound_page_149_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Grozny, August 1996. A woman comes out after the bombing. The hands on the door are a traditional muslim symbol of protection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0c01bf2d-fbf9-476b-82ed-12173328e0a6/7_open_wound_page_182-3_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Grozny, May 2000. Presidential palace reduced to rubble. Even in ruins the palace remained a powerful symbol of the Chechen fight for independence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0cd4661f-8e07-42e7-8389-b078c6c5a8b9/9_open_wound_page_164_0.jpeg Hidden Scars Chechnya, Grozny, young woman looking out of window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/eea6ba15-625c-4a04-9f26-1e2092ef930e/10_open_wound_page_57__0.jpeg Hidden Scars Grozny. January 1995. A Russian Sukhoi roars out of nowhere. A Russian civilian lies dying, his legs blown off. There is no help, only journalists who are survivors, trying to records what happened, helpless to do anything else. The Russian military killed more Russian civilians than Chechen fighters during the battle for Grozny. The shelling of Grozny in the first few months of 1995 was both futile and ironic. The city was largely deserted with the exception of elderly Russian civilians numbering in the tens of thousands. These pensioners had been physically unable to escape in previous months while the city was being surrounded. In a perverse twist, Yeltsin?s Sukhoi jets were bombing Russian grandmothers and grandfathers whose only protection was a handful of Chechen rebels. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/surviving-wounded-knee daily 0.75 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/792ca81b-6dfd-461d-904d-d07b72311a4d/Pine_Ridge_Edit_001.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee The sun sets in the Badlands of South Dakota, the region that is home to the Lakotas. The Oglala Lakota people have long resisted the US government and continue their legal battle over the sacred Paha Sapa (Black Hills). Originally confined to the Pine Ridge Reservation, most Oglala today live in abject poverty in what is the poorest region of the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/2ad533eb-6789-4bd2-9681-12827b96ca9e/FRAZIER6.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee A mass grave site at Wounded Knee honors over 300 men, women, and children who were massacred by the US 7th Cavalry on December 29, 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/7cac95d9-e516-47f4-b0b8-2d8e6ef8cfab/FRAZIER8.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee Jay Waters holds a traditional bow and arrow on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Jay’s father, John Waters, works to teach his children Lakota traditions, including the language. The Waters family, known on the reservation as traditionalists, are active in efforts to preserve Lakota culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9c81bb3c-9c6a-4a38-9b8e-55abda730d8b/WoundedKnee_015.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee Wikuchela Waters sleeps on his parents’ bed in Allen, South Dakota. Allen, part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, has been called the poorest city in America, with a per capita income of $1,539. Over 90% of the population on the Pine Ridge Reservation lives below the federal poverty line, while unemployment ranges from 85% to 90%. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/2f7d125c-9c33-41f6-ad08-7bbe3cd82e96/Pine_Ridge_Edit_009.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee Oglala tribal rangers shot a buffalo that will be processed and distributed to tribal members for ceremonial and social events across the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Lakota tribes of the Great Plains traditionally depended on the buffalo for food, shelter, and spiritual guidance. The US government supported the extermination of the buffalo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/35e5aedd-2bf2-4b20-ac0f-e7901ea80cac/Pine_Ridge_Edit_033.jpeg Surviving Wounded Knee Wild horse races take place at the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Lakotas celebrate traditional life throughout late summer with Sun Dances and horse races across the reservation. The Pine Ridge region is America’s poorest, but it is a part of the country rich in culture and tradition. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/reclaiming-dead daily 0.75 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0365f014-0587-484b-8d45-718a0f0b759e/ABD006.jpeg Reclaiming the Dead A forensic anthropologist works to exhume the body of a peasant killed by the Guatemalan Army in 1982 during the civil war, in Chucalibal, Quiche, 130 km west of Guatemala City. The exhumation was visited by family members of victims of violence from around the world, including relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks in the US. May 17, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ab41915b-afdb-4cde-bc1c-2cd77a942018/ABD003.jpeg Reclaiming the Dead A skeleton is seen next to Mayan traditional clothing in a mass grave where 12 persons were buried after they were massacred by the Guatemalan Army in 1982 in “El Adelanto” village. August 31, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/a6fb9243-b2d5-41be-9f47-19b4e21300e2/ABD011.jpeg Reclaiming the Dead Relatives of 179 villagers killed by the Guatemalan Army during the period of 1981-1984 pray during a mass in a former military base in Comalapa. November 2, 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/e7c23215-e690-4824-82d2-95e38df41c2a/ABD012.jpeg Reclaiming the Dead Lorenzo Cuxil and Felicita Oligaria look at a picture of a victim killed by the Guatemalan Army in a former military base in Comalapa, 80 km west of Guatemala City. Guatemalans honor their deceased loved ones on November 1 and 2. November 2, 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3d9cbd47-5b52-4158-ba4f-ba63a8a267b2/ABD030.jpeg Reclaiming the Dead A man carries the coffin of a villager killed during a massacre by the Guatemalan Army in 1981, in Cocop, Nebaj. After exhuming 76 villagers killed there, a team of forensic anthropologists studied the bones and clothes of the massacred villagers to identify their remains. After more than 2 years, the anthropologists gave the remains to their relatives for burial. June 10, 2008. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/memory-denied daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3fabde1a-7a1f-4871-ba44-534a81bdafc8/004.jpeg Memory Denied The shadow of a train that runs from Adana to Istanbul, Turkey, is seen projected on land between the cities of Konya and Adana, Turkey. A German company won concessions to build part of the railway back in the early 1900s, then called the Baghdad Railway, and in 1915 the Turkish government began to use it to deport thousands of Armenians to Syria... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b80ccf5e-df01-47ee-ba62-6ee01351d1db/009.jpeg Memory Denied A woman holds a small Armenian Bible during a church service in Vakifli, Turkey. About 30 Armenian families populate the small town, located near the Turkish border with Syria. Although Armenians are allowed to celebrate their traditions in Turkey, many fear asserting their ethnic origins, which means living in near silence to avoid trouble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/037e226e-31fe-48d4-a2a3-781854c733c9/011.jpeg Memory Denied A photo of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is reflected on the hearse carrying his flower-covered coffin during a funeral procession in Istanbul in 2007. Dink, a defender of his Armenian past, was charged with breaking a law which makes it illegal to “insult” the Republic or being a Turk. His killer admitted he shot Hrant because he had “insulted Turks.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/093959c5-dcdc-4d9f-b2fd-326c1144d07a/028.jpeg Memory Denied A young girl stands on the ruin of an Armenian church in Diyarbakir, Turkey. A significant Armenian community once flourished in this southeastern city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/d3da2a97-5ec8-4fa0-90a1-a76b495047ee/044.jpeg Memory Denied Snow blankets the countryside in eastern Turkey, where the largest population of Turkey’s Armenians had lived. The region was hit hard by violence between Armenians and Turks in the late 1800s-early 1900s, and during WWI. After the deportation decrees in 1915, almost all Armenian communities in the area were wiped out. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/faith-chaos daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/359de170-d359-4b77-b9e8-aef2d813e540/Bonet023.jpeg Faith in Chaos Murray’s Dream Team is a football team entirely made up of players with one leg. This soccer team was established in February 2001 and is made up of 22 players, all residents of Murray Town Camp for Amputees in Freetown. Most of the players were amputated by roaming rebels with machetes and handsaws. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/64db6d87-8cb9-4cd9-bb5f-93da6bdfb278/Bonet024.jpeg Faith in Chaos Football players from Murray’s Dream Team training on the beach. What does the central figure’s body language communicate? The players on the team are all victims of forced amputations. Do they look like victims? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ac5813f5-bf61-4b9f-90bb-177279eecadb/Bonet029.jpeg Faith in Chaos A football player from Murray's Dream Team is seen here celebrating a goal scored during a match being held to mark the team's commemoration day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/22b3d839-9518-424c-9fba-c50a5cda9e93/TerrySL1.jpeg Faith in Chaos Tamba Ngaujah was the first amputee of the war in Sierra Leone, which featured brutal amputations of civilians by all three fighting forces. Rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captured him 11/21/1992 and cut off both of his hands. He has chosen to forgive the perpetrators because he believes that taking revenge would lead to generational conflict. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/989cdc2c-4458-4119-8626-8584939c6d6e/TerrySL2.jpeg Faith in Chaos Six days a week, eight hours a day, Ngaujah goes to “work”—standing on the streets of downtown Freetown. He does not beg. He waits, hoping that those who recognize him will slip a few thousand Leones (50 cents) into his pocket. Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/d9eaa61e-3a16-41a8-b495-50239a5e5306/TerrySL3.jpeg Faith in Chaos One of Ngaujah’s sons wraps his father’s arms with the white bandages that he wears when he goes out in public. His wife makes sure that his navy blue suit is always clean and carefully pressed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/84b292ad-6322-4bd6-9bd3-a2b41451ca86/TerrySL4.jpeg Faith in Chaos Ngaujah takes a break at a local restaurant, where he often rests during the day to escape from the heat on the streets. Usually he does not eat or drink during the day, saving the money he receives for his family. The only reason he is having a drink on this day is because a visitor bought it for him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/a8b434c9-7221-4e8c-9637-980b8ce507b2/TerrySL5.jpeg Faith in Chaos Ngaujah stands on the hillside above Freetown, where he has been able to build a house on a small piece of land given to him by the government. He does not plan to return to the district where he was born and grew up (and where he was captured by rebels), because he believes that there are better opportunities for him and his family in Freetown, the nation’s capital. “What has been done, has been done,” he says. “Nothing will bring back my hands . . . When I was amputated, during the three days after that [when] I was wandering in the bush, I was asking God to take my life. But God has a plan. At this time in my life, I think God has a plan.” https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/too-young-to-die daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/36d24b91-498f-456c-971d-73ddd74de078/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_002.jpeg Too Young to Die Eternity Gaddy, a 13-year-old bystander struck by a stray bullet during a suspected gang shooting, was killed on September 3, 2008. The young resident of Allentown, Pa., and her mother had been spending the summer in Humboldt Park, the sometimes-violent a neighborhood from which the family had moved years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1e8846eb-62c9-4737-83b4-a3f2e0c5a26d/2YTD6.jpeg Too Young to Die Families pray together on the West Side of Chicago to remember a young girl who was raped and killed. Parents who have lost children to violence often come together here to support other families who have experienced the same tragedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/169510a4-fb8d-4d09-8a96-a3d65fb539c2/2YTD7.jpeg Too Young to Die Darius Mitchell, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was shot and killed at a house party after a fight in 2007. Darius Mitchell’s friends show off their T-shirts, which refer to him by his nickname, D’Man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/17f6bb59-f900-4658-997d-9591d1bd2987/2YTD9.jpeg Too Young to Die Murals memorializing fallen youth in North Philadelphia are reminiscent of the murals for activists in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. In Philadelphia, more than 80% of murders are shooting deaths, versus 70% nationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3bad1db2-8eaf-46d0-a262-c993ba8cd773/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_011.jpeg Too Young to Die Kids jump off of a trampoline during a block party in Chicago, Illinois, in 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/5ba2c0a2-7e88-428a-9cf3-22d786dcceb6/2YTD15.jpeg Too Young to Die A snapshot shows a 21-year-old man who was killed at a birthday party on Chicago’s West Side. In the photo, the young man stands next to a painting from the movie Scarface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/5169e29e-29e7-4e3d-a9c0-df2314469490/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_015.jpeg Too Young to Die Albert Vaughn was the neighborhood guardian, an older teenager who would play ball with the younger kids and try to keep them safe from trouble. “If he was guilty of anything, he was guilty of always protecting these kids,” said Trualanda Fields, a neighborhood mother who was among 50 people who gathered to pay tribute to the 18-year-old they called Lil’ Albert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ca1331a8-1060-4532-b187-592f0d428d28/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_016.jpeg Too Young to Die Thirty-two pine replicas of caskets, each topped with a black cross and flowers, sit in the playground of Sabina Church in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. The caskets, made by teenagers, represent the 32 Chicago Public Schools students who died from violence in 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/56926398-452b-4d1c-9324-7531ccf6c367/2YTD23.jpeg Too Young to Die A woman cleans the blood of Jalil Speaks. The 16 year-old teenager was killed in front of Strawberry Mansion High School in North Philadelphia in 2004. Jalil Speaks was shot outside the school shortly after classes let out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/60d55ee4-19d1-4b7f-b6d1-1d44a84a968b/ORTIZ_CARLOS_JAVIER_024.jpeg Too Young to Die Fakhur Uddin's mother cries in front of the store where he was found dead on August 20, 2008. Uddin was bound with duct tape and shot in the head in the back room of the East Germantown gift store he was minding for his father. The murder occurred almost exactly seven years to the day Mr. Uddin came to America from Bangladesh. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/bosnias-long-road-peace daily 0.75 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/d55d695e-1262-407c-9752-49cb5bfce1d7/book1.jpeg Bosnia's Long Road to Peace A Muslim widow examines body bags containing the remains of recently exhumed victims of the 1992 “ethnic cleansing” campaign waged by Serbs against their Muslim neighbors (July 2001). Exhumations of mass graves began in 1996 and are expected to last for many years to come. Nearly 30,000 Muslims—most of them civilians—were listed as missing at the end of the war; most are believed to have been victims of “ethnic cleansing.” • What details about the way this photograph is composed stand out to you? What roles do light, shadow, and color play? • Why do you think the photographer chose not to reveal the face of the woman? • Photographer Sara Terry notes, “I went to Bosnia with a desire to document the incredibly difficult period when humans move out of war’s desperate struggle to survive, and begin another equally mighty struggle—that of learning to live again.” What is your response to her statement? • What role do exhumations play in the aftermath of war? How can this process help with the process of “learning to live again”? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3dd35d02-cd4c-43c8-b693-e057309f4104/book95.jpeg Bosnia's Long Road to Peace One of Mostar’s legendary jumpers throws himself from the town’s famed bridge, which stands more than 80 feet high. Eleven years after the bridge was destroyed during the 1992–1995 war, the rebuilt structure was opened to the public following a ceremony that drew many foreign officials, including Prince Charles. Local jumpers and divers wasted no time returning to one of their favorite pastimes before the war—collecting change from tourists who watch them jump. Local athletes also used the opportunity to prepare for the 448th annual jumping and diving competition, held the following week. • After standing for over 400 years, Stari Most, or the Old Bridge, was destroyed during the 1993 Croat-Bosniak War. International efforts led to the reconstruction of the bridge, and it was reopened in 2004. This physical bridge does not guarantee lasting peace between these communities, but such symbolic public efforts are significant as the nation looks toward the future. Given this context, what thoughts, feelings, and questions do you have as you view this photograph? • Is it necessary to rebuild structures destroyed during times of war in order for communities to reconcile? What else might be necessary for reconciliation efforts to succeed? What challenges to such efforts might exist that threaten their endurance? • How does this image help to tell a story of recovery and hope? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ef657ff3-08d9-485a-8c6a-8158ca5d88dd/book123.jpeg Bosnia's Long Road to Peace Muslim widows are seen here during the prayer for the dead offered at the groundbreaking of a memorial site for the 7,000 to 8,000 Muslim men and boys who were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. • How does the title of this photograph inform your understanding of what is occurring? • What details in the photograph seem to stand in contrast to the title? What larger story could Sara Terry be seeking to suggest by framing the image this way? • Imagine what is occurring behind the camera and in the surrounding landscape. How might your interpretation of the image change based on the backdrop? • What reasons might the photographer have had for keeping the woman’s face concealed in the shadow of her head covering? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9a777354-2b6f-4988-9d14-c3a330c0cbde/book155.jpeg Bosnia's Long Road to Peace A roadside vendor in Bosnia, hoping to attract passing drivers, offers goldfish for sale. • What larger commentary could the photographer be offering by focusing on fish on the side of a road in Bosnia? • How does this photograph help to tell the larger story of war’s aftermath in Bosnia? • In the video that opens this section, Sara Terry notes that this image prompted her to ask, “What am I not seeing?” Why is this question critical as we view the images included in the Aftermath Project? What are we missing in media coverage of war and the aftermath of conflict? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/4a6fdad6-c109-4862-8c85-42c8be3fddaa/book111.jpeg Bosnia's Long Road to Peace Laser-engraved headstones show images of Bosnian Serb soldiers who were killed during the war. The cemetery is in Visegrad, in eastern Bosnia, a town where some 2,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Serbs in the spring of 1992. Eight years after the end of the war, the former Muslim-majority town remains overwhelmingly Serb. • While the title of this photograph is singular, “Headstone,” two black granite headstones occupy a prominent position in the image’s composition—both with laser-engraved images of the deceased (presumably) holding a gun. Why do you think Sara Terry chose to focus on these headstones? What larger story is being told about the community where this cemetery exists? • These headstones honor dead warriors who are buried in the town where they helped to kill some 2,000 men and boys. How does the composition of this photograph remind us of the loss that has taken place? Why? https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/american-memory daily 0.75 2022-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/4b44d358-cef0-4e1c-9262-143cc8fdcebf/memory28.jpeg American Memory Bear Butte in South Dakota is where the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes received their creation myth, and is still a religious site of great importance, despite being only a few miles from the biker bars and rallies of Sturgis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/96fe6247-336a-42d9-b077-50154696b9a4/Lichtenstein03.jpeg American Memory There is no marker or monument at Cabin Pond, a small swamp in rural Southampton County, Virginia where the slave Nat Turner first received a vision that it was his assigned task to free America's slaves with a rebellion. Cabin Pond is also where Turner planned the rebellion in the summer of 1831, and where he fled to hide after its failure several weeks later. He was captured about a mile away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/84679eb8-b90e-4878-bb10-71522a8aa90a/Lichtenstein05_0.jpeg American Memory A crowd listens to the annual reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by local officials at a ceremony for Juneteenth, a Texas holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when slaves were told by a Union General in occupied Galveston that the Emancipation Proclamation, written two years earlier by Abraham Lincoln, had set them free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0a3b1ce3-4edf-408a-a013-2207e89790af/gila-river.jpeg American Memory Along with some scattered, rusting nails and construction debris, these cement pilings scattered across the Arizona desert are all that remains of the Gila River Relocation Center, one of ten camps built to house Japanese Americans imprisoned during the Second World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/62809271-f742-477b-8f7a-ecbf92397335/mankato.jpeg American Memory This photograph is of Sioux riders arriving in the town of Mankato, Minnesota, on the 150th anniversary of a mass hanging where thirty-six warriors were executed on a single day, the largest group hanging in American history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1df52d32-9607-4130-9f12-205b7567449d/manzanar.jpeg American Memory Aiko Morimoto, a survivor of a Japanese internment camp, sits on a cot in a rebuilt barracks at the National Park Service’s Manzanar camp in California, remembering her childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/f9e49730-fa96-475a-841c-9d6f79166db7/miery.jpeg American Memory This picture is of a small stone monument placed by the state of Rhode Island to mark the spot where the Indian leader King Phillip was tracked down and killed in 1676. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/457fc2e6-749d-4843-a3ae-408527ecc123/Lichtenstein09.jpeg American Memory At the exact bus stop where Rosa Parks boarded her famous city bus trip to fight segregation in 1955, participants in a Sons of Confederate Veterans "Confederate Heritage Rally" wait to march up Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery to recreate the inauguration of Jefferson Davis 150 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/aaaa8b9f-4d95-488e-8077-a06a62726a02/sandcreek1.jpeg American Memory This is a photograph of grove of Cottonwood trees, which I took in memory of the Sandcreek Massacre, where an encampment of peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked and slaughtered by a Colorado militia under the command of John Chivington in November of 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b7bf5551-3ac0-46a5-9c28-f42b9781a547/scottsboro1.jpeg American Memory This photograph is of a wall in the Sheriff’s office in Jackson County, Alabama. I was there because the county seat is Scottsboro, Alabama, where the most famous Civil Rights case of the 1930’s took place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/027a0c20-321b-431f-b32c-f51dfdd5dd1b/seminole.jpeg American Memory I took this photograph of two young girls at an annual barbeque for the black Seminole in the small south Texas town of Bracketville. All the Seminole living there are descendants from a few families of United States cavalry scouts that defended the U.S.-Mexican border in the 1870’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/96eea739-bc3f-439e-8d90-6bd4e8c3a5bb/till.jpeg American Memory A field of cotton waits to be harvested on the outskirts of Money, Mississippi. This is a tribute photograph taken in memory of Emmett Till and his great uncle, Moses Wright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/8e46983b-444e-4515-9257-7a5a8d63710f/Lichtenstein16.jpeg American Memory On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911, volunteers chalk the names of the victims on the sidewalk in front of where their homes were throughout the New York City’s Lower East Side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/fd49ea43-02c5-4dde-86f0-cfb1c5af0273/tubman.jpeg American Memory This picture is of an abandoned slave cabin along the banks of the Combahee River in South Carolina. https://www.theaftermathprojectlessons.org/ukraine-in-three-parts daily 0.75 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9d1cff8b-7a7c-4b5a-b62d-4317e4caf6fd/4_JustynaMielnikieiwcz+image.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts April 2014 , Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Two Roma Sisters Ruslana (16) and Milana (19) taking the evening stroll along the Dnieper River. In April the war was just starting . Slavaynsk was already under full control of armed rebels. In Donetsk two administrative building were taken by them but otherwise the city of over a million residents lived normally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/5bd294bd-ab73-4568-b2c5-799d15bcd3ef/001_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Artur Haltzov, 31, sits for a portrait with his caretaker Inna in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Artur served as a volunteer soldier and attempted suicide due to severe PTSD in 2015 by leaping from a hospital window, which left him with a devastating head trauma. For several years he could not walk, talk or feed himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/cfd6c616-3a8c-4a81-8b1f-e716f8c45b63/Sarello_01.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts The landscape after the battle. The war leaves its mark not only on the inhabitants of Ukraine, the country's infrastructure, but also on its nature. Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, May 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/2ce604e3-af6b-4128-8ae1-9e9b4787954c/13_JM_Set.+002.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2014 , Mykolaiv/ Kherson. Billboard with a picture of Putin as Hitler and the words “ Get out from Ukraine,” on the road from Mykolaiv to Kherson, July 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0f5eaed8-736f-4f81-81e8-54bafc9e2d57/002_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Artur Haltsov, 24, is strapped into a vertical position to help rehabilitate his feeling of space and balance. Artur attempted suicide due to severe PTSD shortly after witnessing his friend be torn to pieces in front of his own eyes near the front line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/15e19df0-2ed3-4bfd-9b80-0fff587eb193/Sarello_02.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Tactical training for civilians at the city shooting range. Every weekend, the inhabitants of Lviv train their shooting skills here, wanting to be ready for a possible attack of Russian troops on Lviv. Lviv, Ukraine, March 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/07004530-5135-4d41-90ba-76608c016fc7/JM_UKR_Aftermath.014.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2014, Kherson. World War II Boat commemorates a battle which took place on the Dnieper River. The boat is located at the entrance to the Kalipso Beach Complex. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/2d6fc1f7-28d8-44d5-9cca-f7a4755a2780/003_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Volodymyr Honcharovsky looks out the window from his bed in the morning after another sleepless night due to overwhelming amounts pain from nerve damage he sustained almost nine years ago when he was shot three times by security forces during the Euromaidan Revolution. He can go up to a week without sleep due to debilitating pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/6ed08f26-dff9-4973-a5eb-498a4a268be2/Sarello_03.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts A housing estate and a playground destroyed as a result of battle in March 2022. Borodyanka is a town near Kyiv, which, next to Bucha, suffered the most as a result of the land offensive of the Russian army at the beginning of the war. Borodyanka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9591b854-c1cc-41b1-891a-5db72bfde14e/JM_UKR_Aftermath.066.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2015, Dniepropetrovsk. Artificial flower vendor on the boulevard by Dnieper river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/fb25f702-6357-4829-86cf-6832eaac4d56/004_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Volodymyr Honcharovsky, 31, married with 4 children, kisses his wife in their home in Teofipol. Honcharovsky was severely wounded during the Euro Maidan Revolution when he was shot three times while attempting to reach wounded demonstrators who had been shot by security forces in central Kyiv. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/0a66290a-8916-4495-8530-df133d77254c/Sarello_06.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Russian missile attack on railway infrastructure. Having suffered heavy losses on the Eastern Front, Russia is focusing on destroying Ukraine's transport and energy infrastructure, which mainly affects civilians. Lviv, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/72e66d06-866d-4cfb-acfa-fc955bcd5d9d/JM_UKR_Aftermath.109.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts May 1, Celebrations in Donetsk, 2015. School children from Donetsk dressed as clowns getting ready to perform for the public. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/8f20ad41-75fc-47c3-8a8b-73f9880beb6c/005_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Volodymyr Honcharovsky is pushed in his wheelchair by his brother Roman while Volodymyr’s son Nazar sits on his lap. Volodymyr cannot walk due overwhelming amounts pain from nerve damage he sustained almost nine years ago when he was shot three times by security forces during the Euromaidan Revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/ac067e37-c21d-4a56-9948-2b483899c840/Sarello_07.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Landscape after the battle. The effect of an ambush attack by Ukrainian troops on a Russian armored vehicles column. Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/6efc728b-3a1b-492b-bb61-d314cdc0984d/JM_UKR_Aftermath.122.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2015, Mariupol. Alexander Mahaykov works in the factory for 19 years. His parents worked here as well. Illich Iron & Steel Works is the second largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, owned by Ukraine's richest man, R. Akhmetov. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3f392330-8f94-4f22-999f-61f88cc28e51/006_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Vasyl Pelish, 19, lies in his hospital bed at the Lviv Military Hospital. He took part in the Euromaidan Revolution and afterward joined a volunteer battalion to fight Russian supported separatists in the Donbas. Separatists took Vasyl captive and hacked off his right arm with a hatchet because he had Слава Україні (Glory to Ukraine) tattooed on his arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9cefd3b6-84c0-45ea-9277-181ee763ebc7/Sarello_08.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Residents of Lviv resting after leaving the shelter, right after the rocket alarm. Despite regular rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities, most residents got used to living in a sense of danger and only a few hid in shelters during rocket alerts. Lviv, Ukraine, March 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/1542634e-9647-4f00-a703-81d1f7fb566c/JM_UKR_Aftermath.160.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts Ukraine October, 2014 : Yaroslava (5) is often playing or hiding in a suitcase her mother and grandmother brought with them while leaving Donetsk. Yarolslava's father, Stanislav, divorced her mother but to help his daughter he set them up in a private hotel. The owner of the hotel on the outskirts of Lvov helps IDPs free of charge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b00775ad-e567-4cfd-9a81-45967e15a7d5/007_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Family and friends walk in the funeral procession for Vasyl Pelish. Previously injured in the Donbas, Vasyl left his home in western Ukraine to volunteer at the frontline shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He was killed by Russian forces at the age of 27. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/f23e888a-f497-4bf3-9d1f-4d371284f5f9/Sarello_11.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Private houses and properties damaged as a result of fighting. Several tanks and vehicles of the troops of the Russian Federation were stationed in the yard of a private house. They were all destroyed as a result of an attack by Ukrainian troops using, among others, Javelin anti-tank weapons. Velika Dymerka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/4fd99778-9487-4ea5-a7f3-fb96481f3977/JM_UKR_Aftermath.167.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2014, Dniepropetrovsk. Wedding of Alexey and Elena. They came from a small town nearby to take wedding pictures by the Dnieper River and Dnipropetrovsk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/15d4db80-0961-469c-b083-b151f3e554d3/008_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Tanya Vichysta-Pelish, embraces her daughter-in-law Albina at her son’s, Vasyl Pelish's, funeral in the western Ukrainian city of Stariy Sambir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/29b27cfc-e320-4a26-8390-05b5df0bfcf3/Sarello_15.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Consequences of fights in Borodyanka. The fire brigade is using heavy equipment to demolish fragments of residential buildings that are at risk of collapsing. The damage was caused by a Russian missile attack in March 2022. Borodyanka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/d360333f-6d61-4cdc-a6a6-405caa326294/JM_UKR_Aftermath.168.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts April 2015, Slavyansk. Bus stop in Semonovka on the entrance to Slavyansk. The heaviest fights took place here when in July 2014 the Ukrainian Army took control of the city from Armed Pro-Russian Rebels. War in Donbas started in the city in spring 2014 when armed rebels took over administrative buildings in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/f70ba669-2678-4863-9214-ee8b16cb33eb/009_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Wounded Ukrainian soldiers Nazar (right) and Yura (center) learn to walk on prosthetic legs during a physical therapy session at a rehabilitation center in western Ukraine. The center, which currently has over 140 patients, works specifically with Ukrainian soldiers who underwent amputations due to the war. Ukraine, October 29, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/453fa5e6-e18a-439d-a808-391261986c7b/Sarello_22.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Young Ukrainians watching a destroyed Russian tank a month after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv. Destroyed Russian tanks were left on the battlefields as "living monuments" and material evidence of the victory of Ukrainian troops. Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, May 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/e3acaa1e-6cb3-42b4-b8b3-450f3ad8b354/JM_UKR_Aftermath.174.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts April 2014, Dneipropetrovsk. Patriotic Youth Exercise in Dneipropetrovsk. School kids took  part in a surviving skills competition, organized by local pro-Ukrainian Cossacks. Many of these Cossacks took an active part in the Euromaidan protest. Later they helped police guard administrative offices agains possible attacks by pro-Russian separatists and than go to war. The first person shot and killed during  the Kiev Euromaidan protest was a man from the Dniepropetrovsk region. City with strong pro-Russian sentiments eventually become a stronghold of pro- Ukrainian movements. First volunteer battalions were formed there and most of fallen soldiers fighting on Ukraine side came from Dniepropetrovsk region in Central Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/804deaa6-9d6f-4cf7-bae3-55fb59283eb3/010_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts A Ukrainian soldier undergoes mirror therapy at Nodus, a state of the art neurosurgical and neurological rehabilitation center in Brovary, located just east of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. He was wounded in combat in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region several months before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/fab43e4e-3d28-41a0-a3a1-817ee3707594/Sarello_23.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Bomb crater. Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/62799f73-fc00-4843-9039-067219d8933f/JM_UKR_Aftermath.178.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2015, Cherkasy. Captain Kasyanenko Nikolay Vasilevich holds his daughter after arriving from the front line back home, where he was for a year. When the war started he was retired from the army but immediately went to sign up as a volunteer to fight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/48dda760-8e3d-4524-a44c-30389f9cb065/011_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts A Russian artillery shell explodes and destroys a house on the outskirts of Soledar in territory controlled by Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region during a large artillery battle between Ukrainian and Russian forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/b4624d70-7aeb-4c68-bb45-04acadd4fcf0/Sarello_26.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts A rural primary school in Cherkaska Lozova destroyed during fights. Schools and kindergartens are buildings that suffered in a special way as a result of the war. Usually the largest and most solid buildings in small towns, Russian soldiers were stationed in schools. The damage was usually caused by fighting for positions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/532ee98f-e1cf-4ef4-9a06-842be3fc233f/JM_UKR_Aftermath.181.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts April 2014, Dniepropetrovsk. Soviet-era cable car used to over the Dnieper River. Some people start calling Dniepropetrovsk a "war capitol of Ukraine." The city is in central Ukraine and is the fourth largest city (1.1 million inhabitants) and the main industrial centre of the country. It was one of the Soviet “closed cities” for its nuclear and space industries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/6a2a2cc7-3861-46af-b572-2c840d73f3fa/012_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts “This war brought Ukrainians together. For some reason sorrow brings people together more than joy,” said Iryna Nalyvaiko, as she went on to describe how well she was treated by her fellow citizens after she escaped Russian occupation in Hostomel, a suburb of Kyiv. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/9821bf2d-ed5d-4c9a-bd69-cfcf31630c6b/Sarello_28.jpg Ukraine in Three Parts Consequences of the Russian missile attack on the city center. As a result of the attack, 24 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. 55 buildings and private houses, 40 cars and two trams were destroyed. Vinnytsia, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, September 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/f65c6f9b-af54-4203-bf56-9f34789dec67/JM_UKR_Aftermath.183.JPG Ukraine in Three Parts July 2014 , Mariupol. Cement Wave Breakers block the road from Novoazovsk as city Mariupol which expect separatist to push further on on any day. Before the war that road was loaded with cars traveling between Russia and Ukraine. At the end of August Separatists backed by Russia took control over the nearby port of Novoazovsk, opening up a new front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/3bb23f1f-a1be-4b83-a22f-812d4d8af784/013_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Pallbearers carry the coffin of Viacheslav Nalyvaiko at Saint Michael’s Monastery in central Kyiv. Mr. Nalyvaiko was a husband, father and grandfather, who never got to meet his young granddaughter. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February prompted him to leave his job and join the Ukrainian military. He was killed in combat in southern Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/632a6d0f9cdb9b71bfc5235f/af2b786d-1d71-421d-9951-66b25023bfa5/014_Sywenkyj_Aftermath_lesson.jpeg Ukraine in Three Parts Oleksiy, 50 years old, digs a grave for a Ukrainian soldier from Kharkiv killed in the war in cemetery #18 on the southern edge of Kharkiv. Approximately 600 Ukrainian military personnel from Kharkiv have been buried here since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.