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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

How the Ukraine invasion resurrected a photographer’s 26-year time warp to the Soviet Union’s collapse

Russian ballerinas prepare backstage for a day of performances
Russian ballerinas prepare backstage for a day of performances. The weekend dance event was to showcase the development of the schools’ ballerinas, from five to 17-year-olds. Photograph: Dean Sewell

As renewed tensions between Ukraine and Russia began to stir late last year, Sydney photographer Dean Sewell began to recall the year he spent living in the newly dismantled USSR more than a quarter of a century earlier.

The multiple international award-winning photographer knew he had dozens of rolls of black and white film he had shot in and around Moscow in the mid-1990s, but he had never had the chance to develop them.

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