The post-Soviet homeless community photographed by Boris Mikhailov in exchange for food and money, 1997–98. After returning to Kharkiv, Mikhailov began photogr

The post-Soviet homeless community photographed by Boris Mikhailov in exchange for food and money, 1997–98. After returning to Kharkiv, Mikhailov began photographing homeless people struggling through the economic aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse. He paid his subjects to pose, sometimes nud…