Kieran Turner's photos

In a small village in central Ukraine.

Always immaculately dressed! This lady is the head teacher at the local school, and the sister-in-law of my very good friend Vasya, with whom I stay when I'm in Chernihiv, Ukraine, where I work under the auspices of Aid Convoy: www.aidconvoy.net

This is one of the older girls at Zamglai. She always tries to get away from whatever she's supposed to be doing to come and help us unload the aid. She greets people by grinning, saying nothing, and stroking their arm to see what their clothes feel like. Then giggles, and runs away, but never too far! Zamglai is an "internat" — a sort of orphanage. Here the inmates, all girls, are looked after by the staff who are paid only as often as can be afforded. The older girls look after the younger ones, and the more capable help the less capable. Some of them are orphans, many simply can't be looked after at home. When they reach 24 they will either try to live together, and continue to look after each other, or will often end up in an asylum. www.aidconvoy.net

Zamglai is an "internat" — a sort of orphanage. Here the inmates, all girls, are looked after by the staff who are paid only as often as can be afforded. The older girls look after the younger ones, and the more capable help the less capable. Some of them are orphans, many simply can't be looked after at home. When they reach 24 they will either try to live together, and continue to look after each other, or will often end up in an asylum. www.aidconvoy.net

Landie (currently somewhat missing-in-action) with some of the girls from Zamglai, who really love posing for photos. Digital cameras are such an amazing tool here, because we can be sure they actually get to see themselves in the pics! Zamglai is an "internat" - a sort of orphanage. Here the inmates, all girls, are looked after by the staff who are paid only as often as can be afforded. The older girls look after the younger ones, and the more capable help the less capable. Some of them are orphans, many simply can't be looked after at home. When they reach 24 they will either try to live together, and continue to look after each other, or will often end up in an asylum. www.aidconvoy.net Incidentally, the Landie has since been stolen - if you happen to see a discovery which looks as though " www.aidconvoy.net " has been removed from its doors, do please let me know...

I had a sauna in there — and cooled off in the pig trough to the right. Temperature inside: 100 degrees Temperature outside: below freezing Temperature in trough: just not funny Number of serious injuries to foot while leaping into trough: 1 Number of bottles of vodka used to clean wound: 1 Infections set in: 0

In a small village in central Ukraine. Ya think the cart on the left has pulled off the road to make room for the other one? ;) www.aidconvoy.net Tenuous link : New York traffic -> old world traffic!

The pillar denotes the various Soviet republics who "gifted" a neighbourhood in this town, Slavutich, which was hurredly built for the former residents of Pripyat, the city evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster (and still a ghost town.) www.aidconvoy.net

Tonia at a house in Slavutich, Ukraine - the town hurredly built for the former residents of Pripyat, which was evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster and remains a ghost town. Slavutich is divided up into several sections, each of which was "gifted" by a different Soviet republic and given the characteristics of that country's traditional architecture. The money ran out when the Soviet Union collapsed, and these lovely houses in the last section scheduled were never finished. They're from one of the Baltic states. Nobody even knew which one. www.aidconvoy.net

Vika & Suzi, asleep in the back of the Landie, after a day in Slavutich, the town hurredly built for the former residents of Pripyat, which was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident and remains a ghost town. www.aidconvoy.net

Part two of two; a memorial to the Chernobyl disaster, in Slavutich, Ukraine. The first part is adjacent in this photostream, and here: static.flickr.com/30/97397705_762c31b33f.jpg Let's hope they didn't LITERALLY build anything with the ashes. www.aidconvoy.net

Part one of two; a memorial to the Chernobyl disaster, in Slavutich, Ukraine. The second part is adjacent in this photostream, and here: static.flickr.com/39/97397704_d90b76a57e.jpg www.aidconvoy.net

Will & Giles Hippisley. Spot the difference! Sorry about the low light causing so much noise for the cameraphone. I love the "real fire in the hearth" warmth though! The pub actually was lit that colour.

I loved the way that these were all different, and deposited as though the drinkers had been standing there, on the edge of a bridge in the street in Cambridge, just watching the river and having a drink. Couldn't see the bar though...

Please do not feed the lunatics. For tenuous link group: farmstand herbs -> farmyard fruitloops! Taken with a Pentax ME-Super (or possibly an ill-advised MV-1) on Kodak Ektachrome transparency film, then scanned with a Canon film scanner through an old Mac with no colour management software working. Hmm. Patina?

Ohmigosh. This is me shortly after professional make-up artist Paula (also in the pic) straightened my hair. It only lasted a day — but for that day I felt fully eligible to join a boy-band... www.paolarecabarren.com/

This is just to provide some contrast to the "straightened hair" pic... (next in this photostream, or here: static.flickr.com/31/97388990_3c4a8546ef.jpg ) Additionally, I believe it's actually compulsory to have this kind of narcissistic tosh on flickr, isn't it? Digital cameras have a lot to answer for... The tint here, by the way, is thanks to the K750i having a "white balance" feature. It's really neccessary for cloudy-weather shots, to prevent things being too blue. You can go the other way though... and I quite like this saturation effect.

Check out the arc of feet! For a few years I've been a member of a great idea called Hospitality Club. It's a lesser-known version of CouchSurfing — and a little more amateurish, in a good way, in its feel. In essence it's about helping fellow travellers. You use the service if you have a room, couch or even floor to offer (or you want to have a place to stay in a strange town), and even if you just want to give a tour (or be shown) around town. I've met some very lovely people through HC. This pic is of Anja and Agnesja from Poland (and me, and another friend of theirs). They stayed with me just very briefly in Brighton while they looked for another place as a base while they told fortunes there. www.hospitalityclub.org