Watch: Kharkiv: Capital of alternative photography (ARTE)

In 1960s Soviet Ukraine, the population lives under KGB surveillance and Soviet propaganda.

But a small group of young photographers in the second city of Kharkiv want artistic freedom and risk Soviet censors to create a new photographic language.

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