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Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind |

TEDGlobal 2014

• October 2014

“Men fight wars, and women mourn them,” says documentary photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind. With stark, arresting images from the Maidan protests in Ukraine, the TED Fellow shows us intimate faces from the revolution. A grim and beautiful talk.

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“Men fight wars, and women mourn them,” says documentary photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind. With stark, arresting images from the Maidan protests in Ukraine, the TED Fellow shows us intimate faces from the revolution. A grim and beautiful talk.

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Documentary photographer

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a documentary photographer who works around the world on issues relating to women, birth rights, depopulation and post-conflict regions.

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Portraits in a time of war

In a Q&A with TED, Anastasia Taylor-Lind shares how she became inspired to focus on the role of gender in war.

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution | TED Talk