Missiles in the street, beggars dressed as cartoon characters chasing tourists, bodies rotting in bloody morgues … photographer Miron Zownir went in search of his Ukrainian roots – and uncovered a country in despair.
On his first visit to the Ukrainian city of Poltava in the summer of 2012, Miron Zownir managed to get access to a mortuary used by the municipal hospital. The photographer had to bribe an employee to let him in, and lied about his reasons for wanting to shoot inside, claiming it was for a project about the dead in eastern Europe.
