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Uljana and Rostyk: Sam Smak natural bread backery
Lviv, Ukraine December 2017
Rostyk and Uljana have had many jobs. Rostyk made music freelance and studied at University but at the same time traded...
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To wake up in another country in your own bed.
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I had a thourough Turkish make over here including...
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Bow strings from Simone in Amsterdam
Destiny
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Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled...
Entrepreneurship in Lviv: Natalya and Vitaly
A start up business in leather goods in Lviv
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017
Natalya teaches at University and gives language lessons online. She was my teacher...
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At the age of 8, she already realised there where only two options. Do what all...
In Israel everyone comes from somewhere
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Serbia, Vukićevica Village, Grabovac, February 2018,
At the first handshake, Aleksandar Velimirovic explains to me the philosophy of their project. For him, it is not...
To wake up in another country in your own bed.
Estonia, Narva, Paldinski, July 2018 In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a...
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