Photographer Marc Wilson explains how it felt to arrive in the remote Ukrainian village where his latest project began: ‘It was a strange feeling… As soon as I arrived, I felt this real need to start making photographs. I work a lot and I take a lot of pictures for my projects, but I don’t take a lot of general photographs when I’m out and about. I don’t snap. I probably don’t take enough family photos when I’m travelling. I like to really care, and the photographs I’ve taken have some meaning. So this strange thing happened when I arrived in this village. It was this incredibly beautiful place. I remember watching village life unfold. I wasn’t certain why or what I was making these images for, but I knew they would be for something.’
The small village Marc describes. He collaborated with producer and fixer Anna Nekrasova. They fell in love and became inseparable.
