“A young boy plucks a rose for his grandmother in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has left no one safe, not even children, from continual attacks by the Russian military,” says the photographer Stanton Sharpe. “And though danger is continually looming, Ukrainians in cities like Kharkiv do their best to give their children a sense of normalcy and safety in their life.”
Stanton Sharpe is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. His main objective with photography is simple—to better understand humanity and to offer others underrepresented perspectives in our world. He works where he is most curious, and his work has taken him to various regions across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the United States and Europe.
Sharpe hopes that his work will encourage others to push beyond their personal boundaries and explore the world’s diverse environments, as he believes that empathy and acceptance can only be found through the courage to foster experience, relationship and education.