‘The louder the gunfire [in Donetsk], the more people we had [in the art school]. It was amazing.’

‘The louder the gunfire [in Donetsk], the more people we had [in the art school]. It was amazing.’

Donbass residents have been coming to Alina Yurtakova’s art studio right under the shelling for the ninth year already. She opened the school in 2013. When Kiev attacked Donbass, Alina thought that nobody needed painting anymore. It turned out to be the opposite. Watch another episode of Alexandra Frank’s documentary series ‘Faces of Donbass’