Blame & Banishment - Médecins du Monde

On 21 December 2006, Michal Novotny took this photo of Slavik, 12,
as he looked out of the sewer where he lived on the outskirts of Odessa,
Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian non-governmental organization
The Way Home, supported by UNICEF and other partners, there were
more than 3,000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa
at that time. Many of them used drugs, had sexually transmitted
infections, and were HIV-positive.
This report highlights five photographs by Michal Novotny, who spent
time with street children when he worked with The Way Home. The
photos can be seen on his web site (www.michalnovotny.com). They
capture the conditions and lives of these children in stark detail.
Of the 20 children he photographed, some have died, others have
disappeared and only one is known to have survived. His work is a
photographic testament of children who have been banished from
their homes and society to a life without hope.
Cover pages photo credit: Michal Novotny
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ISBN 978 92 806 4546 0
© The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2010