We meet Daniel Lyons, the photographer and queer activist capturing moments of resilience. See more photos here:
community to his images of displaced Ukranian youth throughout the Russian military occupation, Daniel’s work confronts you with the reality of a situation without undermining its subjects or the story behind it; always framed powerfully -- an individual against a backdrop of persecution.
You're also a qualitative researcher and photographer. Can you talk a bit about how you bring these two practises together in your work and what you set out to achieve? I lived in Mozambique for four years, from 2005-2009. And since then, I have gone back frequently for work and personal projects. In the last five years I have averaged more than a quarter of my year there. Over the last decade I have formed friendships with people who are like family to me, many of whom are part of the LGBT community. For several years there were frequent discussions among friends about creating a project that would increase the visibility of LGBT Mozambicans.
It came about from a combination of working in displacement camps in eastern Ukraine, and making friends in Kyiv, all of whom were artists or musicians and all of whom had their own stories of displacement. At that time, most of the photographs documenting displacement there and in Crimea focused on the aftermath of violence. But the desires and dreams of my Ukrainian friends were not so different from those of friends at home.
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