Year: 2012
Place: Luhansk
Andrey Lomakin (1974, Pripyat) — Ukrainian photographer. In 1999 graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on the faculty of electronic engineering. Practices mixed martial arts, gave up sports because of traumas. Worked as a photographer at a sport magazine. Since 2008 till 2014 was a staff photographer of Tyzhden magazine. In 2014 starts switches to his personal freelance projects. They are aimed at the research of the social landscape of Ukraine, combining documentary photography and working with archives (Forgotten Victories, Two Lives). Winner of “Photographer of the Year” grand-prix (2017) for the Amulet series (2015), and Allard Prize for Maidan Revolt (2014). The Lugansk region is located in the eastern Ukraine and borders Russia. The economic foundation of this region comes from coal mining and metallurgical plants. Most of these were built during the Soviet era and are now in poor condition. Many of them are closed and have been stripped for scrap metal by the local residents. The joblessness and unbearable living conditions have forced citizens of small towns to move to more successful regions. In the local slang, the Lugansk region is called “Luganda”. The name is derived from the names of Lugansk and Uganda (the country in Central Africa where most people live below the poverty line and are much poorer than those in Ukraine).
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