Here are some photographs I shoot with my wife Mayya Pigida inside the Ilyich Steel Factory in Mariupol Ukraine. This images where shoot in summer 2016
All images are shoot in color and converted to black and white.
The steel workers in this work in a very harsh condition
A old man sad to me that this workers are heroes for working in this factories under this conditions.
So here are the images I promise to publish 3 years ago
Today I became a member in the IBWPA
Enthusiast and Professional Photographers worldwide who shoot partly or mostly in black and white. Since 1999, IBWPA has united hundreds of photographers from 137 Countries.
IBWPA is connected with international art and photo galleries and promotes members of the association and their work to every continent.
IBWPA mamber
I have been fortunate enough to receive this award from www.hotshoe.org
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My images of the Icelandic Sheep taken in the West Fjörds in 2016 won gold award at Px3 in Paris
https://px3.fr/submit/member/winners/press_release.php?win=9011
Icelandic Sheep have been here with us since the first Vikings came to Iceland in 874 And they remain almost the same bred as the Viking brought here. The Sheep has always been used for meat and the wool to make clothing. The Sheep run free during the summer months in Iceland, in the fall they are collected for the winter. some goes to the slaughter house and some live. The Sheep in this images have been free in the mountains in the West Fjords Iceland they ware fresh from the mountains when I took this images and they are the lucky ones this year. 
