‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue'
“This feels deeply poignant, heartfelt and wistful. Thank you Marc and Anna.”
“This is a really lovely book, beautifully produced and is something that I will treasure.” - Patrick G.
We have set up a fund to directly support the community in the village of Balakliya, Ukraine, that this book is set in.
For every signed book bought we will now give the extra £5 to this fund.
For every special edition we will give £25 to the fund.
Standard edition - copy of the book - £33
Signed edition - signed copy of the book - £38
Special edition - signed copy of the book with a signed 10x8 inch print - £85
'The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue', is based around Balakliya, a small village in central Ukraine - the homeland of my wife and family. This dual-language book in English and Ukrainian combines the photographs that I made in this place from 2019-2021 with text written in the shadow of the current war. They are stories filled with dreamy childhood memories and an anxiety shaped by the backdrop of war.
“This feels deeply poignant, heartfelt and wistful. Thank you Marc and Anna.”
“This is a really lovely book, beautifully produced and is something that I will treasure.” - Patrick G.
We have set up a fund to directly support the community in the village of Balakliya, Ukraine, that this book is set in.
For every signed book bought we will now give the extra £5 to this fund.
For every special edition we will give £25 to the fund.
Standard edition - copy of the book - £33
Signed edition - signed copy of the book - £38
Special edition - signed copy of the book with a signed 10x8 inch print - £85
'The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue', is based around Balakliya, a small village in central Ukraine - the homeland of my wife and family. This dual-language book in English and Ukrainian combines the photographs that I made in this place from 2019-2021 with text written in the shadow of the current war. They are stories filled with dreamy childhood memories and an anxiety shaped by the backdrop of war.
“This feels deeply poignant, heartfelt and wistful. Thank you Marc and Anna.”
“This is a really lovely book, beautifully produced and is something that I will treasure.” - Patrick G.
We have set up a fund to directly support the community in the village of Balakliya, Ukraine, that this book is set in.
For every signed book bought we will now give the extra £5 to this fund.
For every special edition we will give £25 to the fund.
Standard edition - copy of the book - £33
Signed edition - signed copy of the book - £38
Special edition - signed copy of the book with a signed 10x8 inch print - £85
'The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue', is based around Balakliya, a small village in central Ukraine - the homeland of my wife and family. This dual-language book in English and Ukrainian combines the photographs that I made in this place from 2019-2021 with text written in the shadow of the current war. They are stories filled with dreamy childhood memories and an anxiety shaped by the backdrop of war.
My friend Yanyk, with whom as a child I used to race to jump from the cliff into the river, was in the most perilous spots in eastern Ukraine during the full-scale invasion. He suffered from shellshock.”
“I will go back to the front line as soon as I recover,” he told me from his hospital bed. “I will fight until we win, until this war is over.” Meanwhile, his wife and two young daughters, sister, niece, and mother are all waiting for him at home.
"The blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag symbolise the clear blue sky above the fields of wheat that cover our land.
In the Ukrainian language, the concept of 'zemlya' or ‘land’ has several meanings. It is the territory and the soil cultivated by the hard work of the people. It is the Motherland."
Anna Nekrasova-Wilson, June 2023.
We have set up a fund to directly support the community in the village of Balakliya, Ukraine, that this book is set in.
For every signed book bought we will now give the extra £5 to this fund.
For every special edition we will give £25 to the fund.
1st edition of 1000 copies.
108 pages / 250 x 200mm
Papers by GF Smith
Litho printed and sewn bound
Text by Anna Nekrasova, Julia Budnik, Larysa Shyposha and Dmytro Vygovskyi
Illustrations by Misha, Masha and Tonya
Design - Robert Shaw
Copy editing - Eleanor O’Kane & Julia Budnik
Translation - Hanna Leliv
Printing at Taylor Brothers in Bristol
Published by two&two press
ISBN - 978-1-8380236-4-5
“In what feels like a night devoid of stars, this is beautiful.”