Modelbau is Frans de Waard (Freiband).

"In late 2022, Edward Sol sent several images of Kyiv when the city was under fire from Russian attacks. Despite these images' gruesome backgrounds, they are also beautiful, and I kept looking at them. Of course, as a middle-aged man born in The Netherlands, I never experienced war and only know it from stories from my mother, from her childhood days, experiencing Nijmegen as a frontline city in the winter of 1944-45. I can't imagine what living during bombardment is like to be in hiding. I started [these] pieces of music, thinking about decay and destruction, of lives interrupted and nobody asked for it. Much of my equipment is old: Walkmans, reel-to-reel machines and Dictaphone... I've added shortwave radio sounds to create a kind of radio drama about the atrocities of wars, not just this one, but any war".

Photos by Serhiy Ristenko, who took this and many great pictures of daily life in Ukraine. He's also a soldier at the frontline. Mastered by Nÿland at 4 & Rising.