CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/2/2015

Daniel King: Ukraine Youth

Featured image is reproduced from Ukraine Youth, Daniel King's absorbing new collection of photographs made in Kiev during the summer of 2013. Shot around the time of that city's infamous "anti-fascist" demonstrations—which were met with armored vehicles and much international attention—King's photographs instead focus on a group of teenagers living alongside the upheaval, involved and yet just outside of it, as they float in their own inward-looking world. What King captured, according to Vogue's Rebecca Bengal, "wasn’t exactly activism, but a youthful spirit that embodies equal parts freedom and rebellion, romanticism and nonchalant cool—an almost accidental expression of style set against the landscape of post-Soviet architecture."