Friday Morning Talks: 5K from the Frontline; Documenting the war in Eastern Ukraine – With Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Join us at the Museum for our Friday morning talk, where photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind will be talking us through her time spent documenting the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Anastasia will be talking to us about impact of the war on the lives of those ordinary people living along the frontline, which she has captured so vividly in her photographic project ‘5K from the Frontline’.

Anastasia is a photojournalist who has recently been commissioned by the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund for us, to capture photographs of women serving in the RAF today. These will be available to view in our next temporary exhibition titled ‘Ad Astra’ opening on Friday 21 March.

About the speaker

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a British/Swedish photojournalist and a poet.

For the past decade Anastasia has collaborated with Alisa Sopova, a journalist and an anthropologist from the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. In 2023, she received the Canon Female Photojournalist Award for her long-term reporting from eastern Ukraine, and over 100,000 people visited her exhibition ‘Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline’ at the Imperial War Museum.

Anastasia is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard university. Her first book Maidan – Portraits from the Black Square, about the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, was published the same year. Her debut poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022.

Anastasia has Masters degrees in photojournalism and poetry.

The talk will take place in the Museum’s Learning Centre and entry is included with Museum admission or Annual Membership.

Advance booking required – please reserve your place via the link below.

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Photos by Anastasia Taylor-Lind ©