Poland has protested a photo exhibition by a Ukrainian fashion magazine featuring models posing next to Polish graves.
The
photographs showing women in provocative poses against a backdrop of
crosses at a cemetery in the western city of Lviv were displayed at a
museum last week.
Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that its
diplomats in Lviv protested “the impropriety of the exhibition, which
could hurt feelings and provoke controversy” and had the exhibit closed.
Galina
Tayan of the LZ online fashion magazine, which organized the photo
session, said the photographs were meant to illustrate that even
religious leaders can sin and not to offend anyone.
The head of
the museum, Iryna Magdysh, said she regretted the decision to display
the photos, saying “our freedom ends when another person’s freedom
begins.”
