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of the world seem so interesting.<br />

I loved Sevastopol and Lviv especially<br />

when I visited Ukraine; I arrived in Lviv<br />

on a beautiful Saturday morning in<br />

May, and took a train back to Kiev the<br />

same night to fly out of the country…<br />

the huge cemetery remains a really<br />

trong memory, those thousands of<br />

graves in a beautiful park in the hills<br />

above the city. And in Kiev, the Mikhail<br />

Bulgakov museum is extraordinary.<br />

Such respect and love towards a<br />

writer. In the English-speaking world<br />

he is revered for The Master &<br />

Margarita, yet few have ever read The<br />

White Guard, whereas that is the book<br />

Ukrainians love most.<br />

The most inspiring pace for me,<br />

however, is Istanbul. I’ve visited<br />

it five times, and would be quite<br />

happy to live there for a while; it’s<br />

the most extraordinary city to take<br />

photographs, so much happening<br />

on every street corner, and history<br />

— hundreds and hundreds of<br />

years of history — around every corner.<br />

Anyone who loves photography<br />

should visit it at least once.<br />

I’ve been writing a set of photography<br />

tips on film photography , especially<br />

for those who are trying it for the<br />

first time — I definitely think digital<br />

photographers should try it at least<br />

once, even if they used to shoot film<br />

and gave it up. Film forces you to<br />

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