Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution

翻译人员: Tom Bright 校对人员: Yumeng Guo

When I arrived in Kiev,

当我在今年二月一日到达基辅时，

on February 1 this year,

Independence Square was under siege,

独立广场已被攻陷，

surrounded by police loyal to the government.

被忠于政府的警察包围。

The protesters who occupied Maidan,

抗议群众攻占独立广场，

as the square is known,

prepared for battle,

准备战斗，

stockpiling homemade weapons

他们备有自制的武器，

and mass-producing improvised body armor.

并大批量生产临时防弹衣。

The Euromaidan protests began peacefully at the end of 2013,

在乌克兰总统维克托·亚努科维奇

拒绝与欧盟长远同盟，

after the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych,

而强化与俄罗斯的关系之后，

rejected a far-reaching accord with the European Union

亲欧派于2013年底开始和平示威，

in favor of stronger ties with Russia.

In response, tens of thousands of dissatisfied citizens

成千上万的民众心怀不满，

poured into central Kiev to demonstrate against this allegiance.

涌入基辅市中心示威，反对政府对俄罗斯的忠诚。

As the months passed,

几个月的时间内，

confrontations between police and civilians intensified.

人民与警察的冲突愈演愈烈。

I set up a makeshift portrait studio by the barricades on Hrushevsky Street.

我在Hrushevsky街的路障旁 搭建了一个临时摄影工作室，

我搭起一个黑色幕布，拍下了一名又一名战士。

There, I photographed the fighters against a black curtain,

a curtain that obscured the highly seductive and visual backdrop

这个黑色幕布遮住了喧嚣与宁静，

of fire, ice and smoke.

掩盖了硝烟、冰霜与战火。

In order to tell the individual human stories here,

为了讲述这里每个人的故事，

I felt that I needed to remove the dramatic visuals

我觉得我需要抹去那些 充斥在主流媒体上的纷杂的画面。

that had become so familiar and repetitive within the mainstream media.

What I was witnessing was not only news, but also history.

眼前的一切对我而言不只是新闻，

更是历史。

当我认识到这一点后，

With this realization,

I was free from the photojournalistic conventions

我不再拘束于传统报刊杂志摄影记者的条条框框。

of the newspaper and the magazine.

Oleg, Vasiliy and Maxim were all ordinary men,

Oleg, Vasiliy 和 Maxim 都曾是普通男人，

with ordinary lives from ordinary towns.

都曾住在普通的城镇，过着普通人的生活。

But the elaborate costumes that they had bedecked themselves in

但他们精心穿戴的装束

were quite extraordinary.

非常特别。

I say the word "costume"

我用「装束」这个词

because these were not clothes that had been issued

是因为这些衣服都不是统一发放的，

or coordinated by anyone.

They were improvised uniforms

只是临时装束，

made up of decommissioned military equipment,

配有淘汰的军械，

irregular combat fatigues and trophies taken from the police.

还有从警察那里获得的战利品和行色各异的迷彩服。

I became interested in the way they were choosing to represent themselves,

吸引我的是他们表现自己的方式，

this outward expression of masculinity,

展现男性气魄，

the ideal of the warrior.

散发斗士光辉。

I worked slowly, using an analog film camera

我并不急于拍下这一幅幅画面，

我架起一台模拟胶片相机，

with a manual focusing loop and a handheld light meter.

手动调焦，

手动调节环境光度，

The process is old-fashioned.

这种拍摄方式早已过时，

It gives me time to speak with each person

却让我有了更多时间与每个人对话，

and to look at them, in silence, while they look back at me.

我看着他们，他们也看着我，相对无言。

Rising tensions culminated in the worst day of violence

紧张的局势在二月二十日集中爆发，

on February 20,

which became known as Bloody Thursday.

这一天被称为「血腥星期四」。

Snipers, loyal to the government,

忠于政府的狙击手

started firing on the civilians and protesters on Institutskaya Street.

将炮火对准Institutskaya街上的民众和示威者，

Many were killed in a very short space of time.

片刻间死伤无数。

The reception of the Hotel Ukraine became a makeshift morgue.

乌克兰旅馆成了临时停尸间，

There were lines of bodies laid in the street.

成排的尸体铺在街上，

And there was blood all over the pavements.

鲜血染红了土地。

The following day, President Yanukovych fled Ukraine.

第二天，总统亚努科维奇逃离乌克兰。

In all, three months of protests

三个月的游行示威以来，

resulted in more than 120 confirmed dead

共有120多人死亡，

and many more missing.

更大数量的人失踪。

History unfolded quickly,

历史的车轮滚滚向前，

but celebration remained elusive in Maidan.

但黎明的曙光遥遥无期。

As the days passed in Kiev's central square,

悲惨过后，在基辅的中央广场，

streams of armed fighters

成千上万的普通民众跟随武装战士，

were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people,

filling the streets in an act of collective mourning.

涌向街道，集体向逝者哀悼。

Many were women who often carried flowers

许多妇女手持鲜花，

that they had brought to lay as marks of respect for the dead.

祭奠逝去的生命，

They came day after day

日复一日，

and they covered the square with millions of flowers.

广场上布满了花朵，

Sadness enveloped Maidan.

哀伤笼罩着独立广场，

It was quiet and I could hear the birds singing.

异常寂静，鸟鸣不绝于耳，

I hadn't heard that before.

这是以前不曾听到过的。

I stopped women as they approached the barricades

我拦下那些前往街垒祭奠亡者的妇女们，

to lay their tributes

and asked to make their picture.

询问能否拍摄她们，

Most women cried when I photographed them.

在我的镜头前，大多妇女泪流不止。

On the first day, my fixer, Emine, and I cried

在第一天拍摄她们时，

with almost every woman who visited our studio.

我的摄影助理Emine和我

一同与几乎每一位来到摄影棚的妇女哭泣。

There had been such a noticeable absence of women

在那之前，我们很久没拍摄过女性了。

up until that point.

And the color of their pastel coats,

鲜亮的外套，

their shiny handbags,

亮丽的手袋，

and the bunches of red carnations,

红色的康乃馨，

white tulips and yellow roses that they carried

白色的郁金香，

黄色的玫瑰花，

jarred with the blackened square

斑斓的色彩与黑沉的广场、

and the blackened men who were encamped there.

与长眠于黑暗的逝者交织在一起。

It is clear to me that these two sets of pictures

我强烈地感受到，

正是鲜明的对比赋予这两套影像意义，

don't make much sense without the other.

They are about men and women and the way we are --

这种意义通过男女的对比而体现，

也通过我们自身——

not the way we look, but the way we are.

不是看起来的样子 —— 而是通过自身而体现，

They speak about different gender roles in conflict,

这两套影像展现了男女各自鲜明的角色，

not only in Maidan, and not only in Ukraine.

不只是在独立广场，也不只是在乌克兰：

Men fight most wars and women mourn them.

男人浴血奋战，女人为之哀悼。

If the men showed the ideal of the warrior,

如果说，男人象征勇士，

then the women showed the implications of such violence.

女人则象征战争背后的哀伤。

When I made these pictures,

当我拍下这些相片的时候，

I believed that I was documenting the end of violent events in Ukraine.

我以为我记录下的是乌克兰暴力事件的尾声，

But now I understand that it is a record of the beginning.

现在我才知道，我记录下的是起点。

Today, the death toll stands around 3,000,

至今，死亡人数统计约为三千人，

while hundreds of thousands have been displaced.

成千上万的人流离失所。

I was in Ukraine again six weeks ago.

六周前我又去了乌克兰，

In Maidan, the barricades have been dismantled,

在独立广场，路障已经清除了，

and the paving stones which were used as weapons during the protests replaced,

在暴乱时被用作武器的铺路石已被取代，

so that traffic flows freely through the center of the square.

广场中心的交通得以畅通。

The fighters, the women and the flowers are gone.

战士，妇女和花都不见了。

A huge billboard depicting geese flying over a wheat field

一幅巨大的画着一群大雁飞过麦田的布告板

covers the burned-out shell of the trade union's building

悬挂于工会大厦外墙，用以遮掩炮火的痕迹。

and proclaims,

布告板上写着，

"Glory to Ukraine.

「乌克兰光荣，

Glory to heroes."

英雄们光荣。」

Thank you.

谢谢各位。

(Applause).

（掌声）