21st November 2013. The date of the first Euromaidan protests in Kiev. Protests prompted by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to suspend a pending trade agreement with the European Union in favour of renewing stronger economic ties to Russia. This decision resulted in wide spread demonstrations across Ukraine.

The protestors first peacefully occupied the centre of Kiev, the Independence Square, known as the Maidan. Responding to police attacks they secured their encampment, creating a network of defences. They occupied government buildings and formed militias. They organised to challenge the direction and the decisions of their government.

The photographs in this book were taken between the 8th and 10th of February 2014. Just over forty-eight short hours inside an encampment which had been in situ for three long winter months. They capture life around the Maidan, now known as Euromaidan (European Square).

One week later violence erupted. The worst since Ukraine’s Independence. Maidan became a scene of carnage, as government forces attempted to remove the protestors using lethal force. Over one hundred protestors and police were killed. Six hundred were wounded. In the days following the violence, President Yanukovych fled Kiev, arriving weeks later to exile in Russia. Ukraine installed an interim president and government with the promise of elections. The changes brought about by these protests, and the occupation of Maidan, have far reaching implications for Ukraine and the region. With no clear idea or understanding how (or where) their reverberations will be felt next.