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.'"
