Self published in 2017. Limited to 500 copies. This is no 131. Signed by Carolyn Drake. Design by -SYB-. Out of print. The series was made by Carolyn Drake in Ukraine at a Soviet-era orphanage designed to protect and provide shelter to girls marked as disabled. I actively collaborated with the residents, drawing ideas from fairy tales, and seeing where our joint aspirations led while passing time in the seclusion of the institution. Nature, real-life activities, and the thick walls surrounding the facility became vehicles for exploring questions about invisibility, creativity, and the construction of normal female behavior. The artwork that opens and closes the book is made over the pages of a book about Taras Shevchenko, a 19th century Ukrainian artist, ethnographer, serf, peasant, poet and imprisoned political figure who is widely revered today. I invited the women to paint on the artwork made by Shevchenko and his male contemporaries, re-imaging the published pages of history. In doing so they became artists, creators, ethnographers, and designers themselves. The images were made between 2014 and 2016, but my involvement with the women began years earlier when I was living in the region and first met and photographed them as children. I returned in 2014, expecting that the girls would have graduated out of the orphanage, but found most of them still living there. " Carolyn Drake is an American photographer and a member of Magnum Photos since 2017. She works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and create alternative and imaginative interpretations of reality. Her work explores community and the interactions within it, as well as the barriers and connections 'between people, between places and between ways of perceiving'." (© Magnum Photos, 2020). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Lange Taylor Prize, a World Press Photo Award, and the Anamorphosis Prize, among other awards.