Every Crimean Tatar family has a story to tell. After deportations on Joseph Stalin’s orders starting 1944, they weren’t allowed to come back for some 40 years.
When the Soviet Union fell apart, they poured back in.
Two Americans – a photographer and an ethnographer – went on a trip around the peninsula to photograph this ethnic minority’s daily exploits in modern Ukraine and interviewed many of them to put a human face to the story.
Photo exhibit “No Other Home” encapsulates many stories from Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Tatars in the Crimea, to an ordinary man, who was happy to buy back the house he was born in.
From June 7 – July 10, 10 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. Ivan Honchar museum, 29 Mazepy St., 360-9077, metro Arsenalna. Free admission.
