"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

Allan Sekula

(c)Allan Sekula
Crew, Pilot, and Russian Girlfriend (Novorossiysk) 1-10, 1999-2010
Photography , 10 x (102.8 x 151.3 cm)
chromogenic prints mounted on alu-dibond and framed

Crew, Pilot, and Russian Girlfriend (Novorossiysk) 1-10, 1999-2000/2010

Crew, pilot, and Russian Girlfriend (Novorossiysk) portraits ten members of the activist crew on the Global Mariner, a ship destined for destruction that was turned into a floating global exhibition on seafarers’ working conditions and rights, sponsored by the London-based International Transport Workers Federation. The primary target of critique was the system of ‘flag of convenience’ shipping, designed to avoid improving working conditions on the oceans.