In late 2013, English photographer Christopher Nunn found himself in a small town in Ukraine, alone and unable to speak the language, just as the crisis in Crimea was starting to foment.
Equipped with only his camera, Nunn had been in the country for months, attempting to reconnect with his family's forgotten Ukrainian roots through photography. He was especially interested in capturing the everyday lives of Ukraine's common citizens.
But as crisis spread and unrest grew, Nunn's work took a different tone.
"I never set out to document the political situation or the war directly," Nunn says.
Nonetheless, he captured what he saw, chronicling the subtle and not-so-subtle effects the violence and turmoil had on daily life in Ukraine, in both big cities and small towns.
This body of work, titled "A Row Of Bones," is an understated but affecting look at life right now in Ukraine. More work can be seen on Nunn's website.
In early 2013, Nunn decided to travel to his grandmother's hometown of Kalush, in western Ukraine. His grandmother left the town when she was 15 years old and never returned. Nunn wanted to connect to a part of his family's history that he was unfamiliar with by exploring and photographing.
Nunn, who was traveling alone and did not speak any Ukrainian, says that the country "was like another world to me. I was interested in the way people live, but I didn’t want to see this from a distance, I wanted to get close and understand more and take my time."
Nunn says he spent a lot of time "walking around, drinking vodka, and smoking cigarettes." He met briefly with another photographer who wrote a note for him which read "Please can I take photo?" in Ukrainian before leaving. From then on, he was on his own.
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