Gelatin silver print
11" x 14"
 
 
At the end of an eight-hour shift underground in the Zhdanovskaya Coal Mine, half the time spent crawling on their hands and knees in cool dust, for the equivalent of $30 a month. The miners are smoking the second half of the cigarettes they lit this morning, then pinched out to save for this moment. Donbass region, Ukraine. February 1992.
 
 
Shepard Sherbell