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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.51,0:00:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I arrived in Kiev,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.34,0:00:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on February 1 this year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.73,0:00:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Independence Square was under siege,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.35,0:00:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by police\Nloyal to the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.99,0:00:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The protesters who occupied Maidan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.53,0:00:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the square is known,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.36,0:00:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepared for battle,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.98,0:00:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stockpiling homemade weapons
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.24,0:00:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mass-producing improvised body armor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.16,0:00:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Euromaidan protests began peacefully\Nat the end of 2013,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.13,0:00:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the president of Ukraine,\NViktor Yanukovych,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.36,0:00:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rejected a far-reaching accord\Nwith the European Union
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.85,0:00:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in favor of stronger ties with Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.85,0:00:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In response, tens of thousands\Nof dissatisfied citizens
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.20,0:00:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poured into central Kiev\Nto demonstrate against this allegiance.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.66,0:00:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the months passed,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.29,0:00:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confrontations between police\Nand civilians intensified.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.86,0:01:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I set up a makeshift portrait studio\Nby the barricades on Hrushevsky Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.25,0:01:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, I photographed\Nthe fighters against a black curtain,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.55,0:01:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a curtain that obscured\Nthe highly seductive and visual backdrop
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.95,0:01:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fire, ice and smoke.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.86,0:01:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to tell the individual\Nhuman stories here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.24,0:01:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that I needed to remove\Nthe dramatic visuals
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.38,0:01:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had become so familiar and repetitive\Nwithin the mainstream media.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.46,0:01:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I was witnessing\Nwas not only news, but also history.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.59,0:01:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With this realization,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.93,0:01:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was free from\Nthe photojournalistic conventions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.86,0:01:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the newspaper and the magazine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.87,0:01:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oleg, Vasiliy and Maxim\Nwere all ordinary men,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.90,0:01:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with ordinary lives from ordinary towns.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.31,0:01:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the elaborate costumes\Nthat they had bedecked themselves in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.62,0:01:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were quite extraordinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.95,0:01:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say the word "costume"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.74,0:01:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because these were not clothes\Nthat had been issued
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.19,0:01:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or coordinated by anyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.18,0:01:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were improvised uniforms
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.48,0:02:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made up of decommissioned\Nmilitary equipment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.36,0:02:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,irregular combat fatigues\Nand trophies taken from the police.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.72,0:02:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became interested in the way they\Nwere choosing to represent themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.30,0:02:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this outward expression of masculinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.84,0:02:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ideal of the warrior.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.72,0:02:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked slowly,\Nusing an analog film camera
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.01,0:02:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a manual focusing loop\Nand a handheld light meter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.76,0:02:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The process is old-fashioned.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.28,0:02:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives me time to speak with each person
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.27,0:02:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to look at them, in silence,\Nwhile they look back at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.76,0:02:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rising tensions culminated\Nin the worst day of violence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.98,0:02:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on February 20,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.71,0:02:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which became known as Bloody Thursday.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.66,0:02:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Snipers, loyal to the government,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.72,0:02:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started firing on the civilians\Nand protesters on Institutskaya Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.12,0:02:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many were killed\Nin a very short space of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.12,0:02:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reception of the Hotel Ukraine\Nbecame a makeshift morgue.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.24,0:03:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were lines\Nof bodies laid in the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.28,0:03:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was blood\Nall over the pavements.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.91,0:03:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following day,\NPresident Yanukovych fled Ukraine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.15,0:03:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In all, three months of protests
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.93,0:03:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resulted in more than 120 confirmed dead
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.40,0:03:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many more missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.91,0:03:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History unfolded quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.96,0:03:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but celebration remained\Nelusive in Maidan.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.49,0:03:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the days passed\Nin Kiev's central square,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.29,0:03:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,streams of armed fighters
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.83,0:03:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were joined by tens of thousands\Nof ordinary people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.25,0:03:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,filling the streets in an act\Nof collective mourning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.17,0:03:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many were women who often carried flowers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.59,0:03:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had brought to lay\Nas marks of respect for the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.77,0:03:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They came day after day
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.34,0:03:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they covered the square\Nwith millions of flowers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.52,0:03:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadness enveloped Maidan.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.28,0:03:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was quiet and I could hear\Nthe birds singing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.90,0:03:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hadn't heard that before.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.14,0:03:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stopped women\Nas they approached the barricades
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.64,0:03:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to lay their tributes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.81,0:04:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and asked to make their picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.48,0:04:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most women cried when I photographed them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.59,0:04:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the first day,\Nmy fixer, Emine, and I cried
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.77,0:04:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with almost every woman\Nwho visited our studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.88,0:04:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There had been such a noticeable\Nabsence of women
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.88,0:04:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up until that point.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.62,0:04:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the color of their pastel coats,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.92,0:04:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their shiny handbags,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.66,0:04:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bunches of red carnations,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.75,0:04:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white tulips and yellow roses\Nthat they carried
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.98,0:04:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jarred with the blackened square
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.11,0:04:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the blackened men\Nwho were encamped there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.10,0:04:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is clear to me\Nthat these two sets of pictures
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.96,0:04:38.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't make much sense without the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.69,0:04:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are about men and women\Nand the way we are --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.09,0:04:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the way we look,\Nbut the way we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.83,0:04:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They speak about different\Ngender roles in conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.66,0:04:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only in Maidan,\Nand not only in Ukraine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.60,0:04:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men fight most wars and women mourn them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.40,0:04:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the men showed\Nthe ideal of the warrior,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.84,0:04:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the women showed\Nthe implications of such violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.26,0:05:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I made these pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.02,0:05:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believed that I was documenting\Nthe end of violent events in Ukraine.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.82,0:05:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now I understand\Nthat it is a record of the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.32,0:05:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, the death toll stands around 3,000,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.73,0:05:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while hundreds of thousands\Nhave been displaced.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.85,0:05:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in Ukraine again six weeks ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.55,0:05:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Maidan, the barricades\Nhave been dismantled,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.04,0:05:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the paving stones which were used\Nas weapons during the protests replaced,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.92,0:05:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that traffic flows freely\Nthrough the center of the square.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.13,0:05:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fighters, the women\Nand the flowers are gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.74,0:05:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A huge billboard depicting geese\Nflying over a wheat field
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.54,0:05:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,covers the burned-out shell\Nof the trade union's building
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.81,0:05:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and proclaims,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.23,0:05:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Glory to Ukraine.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.68,0:05:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Glory to heroes."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.38,0:05:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.38,0:05:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause).