“A passenger on the 20-hour journey from Kyiv to Mariupol looks out the window while drinking a cup of tea during a brief station stop two and a half hours out of Kyiv,” says the photographer Joel Carillet. Photographed September 23, 2015.
Joel Carillet is a Tennessee-based photographer and writer who documents stories from across the world. He has covered everything from the political upheaval in Egypt to beach culture in Brazil and from refugee camps in Iraq to pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. He photographs people and the contexts in which we live.
Raised in Atlanta and Papua New Guinea, Joel went to college and graduate school in Tennessee. Shortly after his 30th birthday in 2003—and after having worked in Egypt, Palestine, Ukraine, and Washington DC—he entered the nebulous world of travel writing by boarding a flight to Beijing, from where he began a 14-month overland journey across Asia.