Vitya, Alyona, 2010
‘In Alekhovshchina, I was under the spell of these stories. When I was not with my aunties, I was wandering the forests and the village streets, beguiled like Dorothy by the colour-saturated landscape. I was especially drawn to the children, who were the age I had been before my emigration and inhabited the landscape free of parental supervision. They were playing in the same rivers and forests as I had, with the same freedom to roam. Unlike me, they were willowy, tanned, blond and unencumbered by doubt. They didn’t read fairytales – they embodied them’
source: theguardian.com