People

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  “Art always falls short of the reality of war.” Ukrainian artist Lesia Khomenko on violence and her journey from Kyiv to New York

  Artist Lesia Khomenko is one of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art and a co-founder of the R.E.P. group, which emerged in response to a new political reality...

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  Alexandra Alissa Novitchkova built an academic career in Ukraine, left it for human rights advocacy, and now teaches in Canada. In her own words

  Scientist and human rights activist Alexandra Alissa Novitchkova is 46 years old. She graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA) and pursued postgraduate studies. In 2005,...

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  Ukrainian photographer Sasha Maslov used to shoot celebrities in New York, and now—the war in Ukraine. A portrait of a person who takes portraits

  Nineteen years ago, a young photographer from Kharkiv, Sasha Maslov, arrived in New York to pursue his own American Dream. And it came true: Sasha photographed David Lynch and...

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  How Ukrainians are teaching Canadians to drink drip coffee. An Interview with the owners of Hutsul Coffee Factory

  Yuliia Konarieva and Artur Konariev are a Ukrainian couple who moved to London , Canada, in 2023. There, Artur, who had long been interested in coffee, began experimenting...

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  “My job is to prevent time from erasing the evidence.” Dariia Martyniuk is a conservator at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We spoke with her about how to preserve memory

  In the conservation laboratories of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , specialists dedicate themselves to preserving one of humanity’s most tragic historical records:...

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  Galyna Solovei studied in South Korea, contributed to education reform in Ukraine, and taught in Kyiv, Amsterdam, and Madrid. Here is how she managed to do it

  Galyna Solovei is 47 years old. She studied philosophy, took part in reforming Ukraine’s education system, trained in international development policy in South Korea, and...

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  “War is always a poison for democracy.” Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on human rights defense and justice that cannot exist without humanity

  Oleksandra Matviichuk is 42 years old. She has been involved in human rights defense for twenty of those years. During the Euromaidan , the organization led by Matviichuk...

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  Voices of Children has spent years helping children affected by war. The story of one of Ukraine’s largest charitable foundations

  Olena Rozvadovska and Azad Safarov founded the Voices of Children foundation after working on the film A House Made of Splinters about a children’s shelter in ...