Fighting for your life results in finding objects around you that are going to protect it. When peaceful protests first broke out in Ukraine on November 21, photographers were scrambling to capture the scenes unfolding. However, photographer Tom Jamieson noticed something about the people protesting, their DIY weapons were absolutely brutal.
“Every single person without fail had a club or a bat or something like that,” says Jamieson. “You couldn’t help but notice the DIY nature of the whole thing, from the barricades themselves to the totally inadequate body armor that people were wearing, and the weapons as well. It looked like something out of Mad Max, it was crazy.”
As Jamieson and his assistant walked through the occupied zone, they carried around a black background cloth which would be set up when they found a protester carrying an interesting looking weapon. They shot outside in the square, in occupied buildings, near the protesters’ tents, usually in the early morning or twilight hours to keep lighting consistent.
“The reaction a lot of people have is normally, ‘God I would hate to be hit by that thing,’” says Jamieson. “But as nasty as a lot of these weapons look, and as brutal and primitive, it’s nothing in comparison to an automatic machine gun. So they look fearsome but they’re almost medieval — it’s sticks and stones.”
See the full project via Wired.
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