BIG PICTURE
Lemurian Salt Lake,
Ukraine
After an arduous, eight-hour drive on poor
local roads through the Kherson region, I
arrived at the ‘Dead Sea of Ukraine’, but felt
as though I was looking at another planet.
With this image, I wanted to capture the
lake’s extraterrestrial appearance as well
as its hypnotic pink hue, which is caused
by microscopic algae in the water. I used a
drone, which revealed a number of striking
results from above — the sheer size of
the lake, as my friends and I walked along
the water’s edge, as well as the abstract
shapes of animals and people created by
the swirling, smudged layers of salt on the
shoreline. It’s one in a series of shots that
truly convey the drama of this unusual place.
YEVHEN SAMUCHENKO // PHOTOGRAPHER
q-l-n.com
@qliebinA winner of the 2020 Sony World Photography
Awards. An exhibition featuring all the winners
runs until 4 May at Somerset House, London.
May/Jun 2020 17SMART TRAVELLER