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Songs underground. Mykhaylo Palinchak filmed a lesson for pupils in a village in the Kharkiv region.

11.10.2023
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Schools near the front line in the Kharkiv region teach online.. The volunteers, together with the teachers and a psychologist, carry out social interaction activities once a week.


Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak

"I took the photos on 7 September 2023. I was on a trip with volunteers to villages in the Kharkiv region. The villages were under occupation. They are pretty close to the Russian border," says Mychaylo Palinchak.

While visiting the school, an air alert started and teachers took children to shelter in a nearby building. The school has no bomb shelter.

Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak

In the narrow corridors of the shelter, the children and their teachers huddled together. The adults hugged the youngest ones and lit up the room with flashlights from their mobile phones. Everyone was singing the national anthem and patriotic songs together.

Mykhaylo Palinchak — Ukrainian street, reportage and documentary photographer who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Born in January 1985 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine, in the familyphotographer. He started photographing in 2008. Member of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) since 2012 and member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2014. Numerous awards, exhibitions and publications around the world.

Photographer's social networks: Facebook, Instagram

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar

Read also: The Russians hit a KaB on an apartment building in Kharkiv. Consequences of war crime in the lens of documentary filmmaker Georgy Ivanchenko

Schools near the front line in the Kharkiv region teach online.. The volunteers, together with the teachers and a psychologist, carry out social interaction activities once a week.


Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak

"I took the photos on 7 September 2023. I was on a trip with volunteers to villages in the Kharkiv region. The villages were under occupation. They are pretty close to the Russian border," says Mychaylo Palinchak.

While visiting the school, an air alert started and teachers took children to shelter in a nearby building. The school has no bomb shelter.

Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak

In the narrow corridors of the shelter, the children and their teachers huddled together. The adults hugged the youngest ones and lit up the room with flashlights from their mobile phones. Everyone was singing the national anthem and patriotic songs together.

Mykhaylo Palinchak — Ukrainian street, reportage and documentary photographer who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Born in January 1985 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine, in the familyphotographer. He started photographing in 2008. Member of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) since 2012 and member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2014. Numerous awards, exhibitions and publications around the world.

Photographer's social networks: Facebook, Instagram

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar

Read also: The Russians hit a KaB on an apartment building in Kharkiv. Consequences of war crime in the lens of documentary filmmaker Georgy Ivanchenko

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