Brothers Under the Skin

My good friend Judy sent me this Moscow Times article on Canadian photographer Donald Weber.  He recently relocated to Kiev and has been documenting the lives of Russian and Ukrainian ex-cons or "zek."

"I had one zek say to me, 'There's a big zone [the slang for prison] and a small zone. One is prison, one is the outside world, but which is which?' And he added, 'One is slightly more humane than the other.' I said, 'Which one?' And he said, 'I don't know: You tell me.'"