20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
Ghost town

The war in Ukraine. This resident of Mariupol lost his wife during the Russian invasion. Alexander says: “I lived in this apartment for the first six years after the wedding. Only a small library survived after the bombardment, everything else turned to rubble.”

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2022
Date Uploaded: 10.2022
Photo Location: Mariupol, Ukraine
Camera: NIKON Z 7
Copyright: © Andrey Troitsky