Valeriy Reshetnyak led a double life during the Soviet era. Officially, he was an engineer in Kyiv. But in his spare time, he photographed ordinary people in the Soviet Union.
“None of my coworkers knew what I was doing. It was a kind of dissent,” says Reshetnyak.
He knew that his photos would not be printed or exhibited anywhere while the Soviet system was firmly in place.
“I naively thought that one day people would look at my photos and reflect on their lives, but I was wrong,” Reshetnyak says.
