#julia wimmerlin

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Bicyclists in Shibuya

julia wimmerlin

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Forbidden. As my school years were drawing to a close, the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred. It wasn’t until my forties that I discovered an extra letter in the Ukrainian alphabet, unbeknownst to me before. This letter had been removed from the Ukrainian alphabet shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union, only to be reinstated after Ukraine gained independence in 1991. © Julia Wimmerlin

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_____Wind by Julia Wimmerlin

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Photo by Julia Wimmerlin from her series, “Freefalling.”

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I can’t speak. In this childhood photo of mine, Russian remains my mother tongue, and even now, I struggle to converse with my mother in Ukrainian. While I cannot alter my native language, speaking Russian leaves me feeling like a traitor. The internal conflict renders me speechless. © Julia Wimmerlin

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Mother's care, Bali, Indonesia, 2013 - by Julia Wimmerlin, Ukrainian/Hong Kongese

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Connection

Very much like humans, baby orangutans stay with their mothers until they are 7 years old. For the first few years they don't leave mother's side - they are grabbing to mother's hair and are carried by their mothers all the time. Tanjung Putting National Park, Borneo, Indonesia

Photographer: Julia Wimmerlin

Prize: Honorable Mention

International Photo Awards 2020

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Orangutan and his baby