Zifan Zhang‘s story Lost and Found has been shortlisted and exhibited at Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week in Georgia.
Lost and Found is shortlisted in the Documentary Series category of the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards.
Zifan Zhang writes about the project:
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Transnistria—bordered by Moldova and Ukraine—faces deepening isolation. Politically unrecognised and reliant on Russia, it struggles with a worsening energy crisis happening at the beginning of 2025. Many young people hope to leave, but options are few. Caught between identity struggles, propaganda, and the threat of conflict, they grow up in a land suspended between a fading past and an uncertain future.
Zifan Zhang made the story as his final project during the workshop Photojournalistic Method that is part of our international Photo1 programme.