by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 21 Oct, 2025 | 12Jobsin12Months, Opinions
One of the reasons I wrote a book called 12 Jobs in 12 Months was to show people that getting a job is easy.
Why is this important?
So many people I know feel stuck in their jobs. There are many reasons for this: the familiar complaints about bosses, colleagues, pay, hours; and a more deep seated fear that no job is safe, no company is immune from the vagaries of a globalised economic system.
Some of these fears go back to the dawn of the industrial revolution when jobs had none of the legal protections we take for granted today, and workers could be fired on a whim. Other worries are new, like the threat of AI taking over office jobs.
As I've managed to overcome these fears, it would be easy for me to dismiss them. But that would be arrogant and my aim in life is to help people -- to change jobs, overcome fear and travel independently. I spent the last 40 years working freelance, from project to project, in many different countries, and having built a reputation for honesty and hard work I went easily from one short term job (or project) to the next. All this gave me a sense of job security.
I know what it's like to feel trapped by a mortgage, I have experienced the way that HR departments treat applicants (like cattle), and I sympathise with anyone who just can't face these demons.
My message isn't for everyone. It's for students who need to know the lay of the land before throwing themselves on the mercy of the job market. It's also for retired people who are wondering what they can do with the tremendous skills and energy they built up over 40 years; and I want to offer a lifeline for anyone who can't stand their job and is ready to jump.
Two Approaches to Getting a Job
It's clear to me there are two approaches to getting a job: the formal, traditional way of approaching big organisations, joining thousands of others, filling in endless forms, being evaluated by an algorithm and probably getting rejected.
The other approach, my way, is to simply ask people if they need any help with their house. Many people complain they can't find anyone to paint rooms, fix walls, clear gardens, garages and attics. It may start out at just a few hours work and a good way to learn is to do the first few jobs unpaid -- treat it as a training session.
I charge a low fee of £15 an hour, plus expenses, and can make enough to get by. I find that one job leads to another, one happy client becomes an advocate and people contact me out of the blue asking me to fix this, clear that, or paint their house. In my book I squeezed 12 jobs into a year and there's a certain amount of comedy involved -- constantly hustling for work, getting fired, and doing some quite bizarre jobs -- as well as moments of doubt ("will I be able to get a job next month?")
Doing building work is only one option: a retired person could do consultancy; anyone can do creative work, or casual work; all that's needed is courage and determination. The main thing to know is that there's plenty of work out there and by taking a job you will be doing the employer a favour. Another option is to write a book, and if you'd like to find out how to do it check out this article: 5 Reasons to Publish an Ebook.
For me, the key to getting work like this is humility, in other words I need to come off my high horse about being a successful project manager and EU consultant in the past, and embrace a future as a simple labourer. This results in a great feeling of satisfaction. In fact, this whole experience results in a general feeling of liberation.
I'm sure many of you reading this article are not convinced; those short term jobs sound flaky, you may be worried about a lack of experience and qualifications, and I doubt you'll believe that you can learn most of these skills "on the job."
A more secure and profitable way into a new job is to learn a trade. The market is crying out for joiners, plumbers, electricians, plasterers and brickies -- look at how we've soaked up so many tradesmen from abroad -- and courses are available everywhere. Once you've learned the trade you can charge up to £350 a day, and that's enough to sustain the most expensive lifestyle. I looked for an article about this in the media but couldn't find anything useful in what Trump calls "The Lamestream Media", but I did find this article from a training agency which is worth looking at: How Learning a Trade is Helping Disillusioned Young People Get Back on Track.
If you want to move on but you feel a lack of courage, just get in touch and I'll try to help you. I love talking to people who want to change their life. It's something we can all do, it's never too late and I'm inspired by helping people bridge that gap.
Contact me via this article -- just leave a comment below and I'll get back to you
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In case you're wondering: none of this article is written with AI. Also, you may be wondering who's in the photo: it's my son Luca and his cousin Rares Boboc.
by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 23 Apr, 2024 | 12Jobsin12Months, My books, Opinions
I'd love to know what you think of the draft introduction to my new book "12 Jobs in 12 Months", below. It explains how the idea came together. Would you buy a book with mad stories of chasing jobs, and the blind faith that sustained me? I'd be so grateful if you would add a comment below the article.
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The Dog Days Between Christmas and New Year
I want to explain how this book came about. On the 22nd of December 2022 I was walking across Edinburgh and I called an old contact called Alan Calcott. Alan runs a company called Carbon Plan Engineering, which offers energy efficiency solutions for commercial properties -- in other words, how to save money by insulating buildings and using whatever renewable energy technologies are most appropriate. One of his early jobs was helping Bristol Zoo turn manure into energy.
I told Alan that since lockdown in 2020 I’ve been getting into building work. During that year much of the economy shut down and I ended up back in my hometown -- Edinburgh -- doing up my flat. I’d been renting it out for 20 years and suddenly my tenants went back to Australia and it was empty. I was at a loose end and I ended up renovating the place with £15,000 I had inherited from my mother’s untimely death.
The surprising thing is that I really enjoyed the work -- painting and decorating, doing basic joinery, finding and motivating tradesmen, running around in an old Toyota Hiace van I’d got for £250, and crawling under the floorboards (wearing a gas mask) fitting insulation. I wore a boilersuit, drove a white van and was able to travel freely as the building trade, for reasons I still can't understand, was exempt from the Covid 19 lockdown restrictions.
For over 20 years I’d been working as a project manager and PR consultant in Romania, Russia and the former Yugoslavia. These jobs paid good money, enough to buy a flat in Edinburgh and Bucharest. But the more successful I got at doing consultancy work -- which is essentially sorting out other people’s crap -- the more stressful and lonely it became. As a PR consultant I got a direct view into the nerve centre of a company, or government agency, and even the EU (my main client) and it’s not pretty. The best word that describes a big modern organisation is neurotic, a word that Google defines as “abnormally sensitive, obsessive, or anxious”.
For years my aim was to earn enough money to support my family and although I was a rotten husband I was good to my kids and sometimes I earned a lot as a consultant. But I’m a backpacker at heart, a nomad, a gypsy, and settling down in one place just isn’t for me. Even within the marriage I would wander, go on long bicycle tours alone, and now that I’m divorced, the mortgage is paid off, and my kids have grown up, I’m free to hit the road again. The fact that I’m 59 years of age isn’t a problem as my attitude is the same as it was when I left school -- I know that something good will soon come along as I’m honest, reliable and am sustained by my good reputation. I'm also working on being more humble, which makes it easy to appreciate what most people would call "shitty jobs".
As I was saying, I was on the phone to Alan Calcott and I told him I want to learn about how to insulate buildings as this seems to be a good way to help people reduce greenhouse gases in their homes. This would be my way of "doing my bit" for the planet. Does he know any building companies that might need a labourer, driver or dogsbody?
By now I was walking on a busy road and it was hard to hear what he was saying. Our conversation went something like this:
"What’s the name of that book? I didn’t hear you properly. Did you say 12 Jobs in 12 Months? Who's the author?"
"No, it’s not been written yet. You should write it."
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"You should get 12 jobs over the next year in all the sectors that are short of labour, not just construction. Catering and hospitality are also short of workers. Then write a book about it."
"That’s an interesting idea."
"And it's timely. Brexit has cut off the supply of European labour."
"I suppose there's plenty of work out there."
"There certainly is. Send me a text that I can post on LinkedIn. But now I've got to run."
"Bye."
People often suggest I write a book about what I’m currently doing. Friends have encouraged me to write about living on a houseboat, working in Bosnia and visiting New England -- all things I’ve done over the last few years. But one needs to be inspired to write a book as it requires a massive concentration of mental energy, and the thought of writing another book about houseboats, Bosnia or New England makes me yawn.
This idea of 12 jobs in 12 months is different. It feels original, wacky and inspiring. Has anyone written anything like this before? The closest thing I can think of was an advert I saw in the New York Times, looking for someone to travel to a different location every day for a year, all over the world, and write about it. I thought such a task was impossible but I still applied (and, as with all jobs I've formally applied for, got no reply).
This book also presents a challenge: Is it possible to get 12 jobs in 12 months? Is it really so easy to get a job, to profit from the shambles of Brexit? Will I be able to sustain it over the entirety of 2023?
What I do know is that the worse the job, the more chaotic the situation, the better material I will have. It will be a book written in the present tense, or in "real time" as they say nowadays. I also know that once I get started it will form a life of its own. Books are like seeds, which are often dry and dormant, but once the growth process starts it's fast, exciting and powerful.
#12x12
by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 4 Apr, 2024 | 12Jobsin12Months, Journeys, My books, Psychology of Travel
This is a difficult question to answer. It was easy enough to make the decision to do 12 jobs in 12 months, but now that I’ve done them (I finished in December last year) and have to write up the stories, I’m faced with strong internal reluctance to get started. Part of me knows that what I did last year was unusual and people, presumably, will be interested.
I’ve just finished a decorating job and it’s always really hard to transition from “normal” work to the introspective task of writing. I feel a strong pull towards YouTube, catching up on the news, sharing silly messages on WhatsApp, organising my next journey, cleaning the house, washing up, going for long walks — doing anything other than looking into my thoughts, feelings and memories. Avoidance is the name of the game
They say that money makes the world go round but the same could be said for jobs. Without jobs people would be broke and they’d also be without a daily structure, a routine that gets them up in the morning and pulls them through life.
Most jobs last for years, some for decades, and wouldn’t it be interesting to read about someone who did 12 of them in a year? When I’ve mentioned it to people they often ask questions: What was your favourite job? (Catering). How did you get jobs? (Networking). Did these jobs take you abroad? (Yes). Were you well paid? (Sometimes). Did you get fired? (Yes). What gave you this idea? (A conversation).
Funnily enough nobody has asked me why I did 12 jobs in 12 months or why I’m writing a book about it, and that’s why I’m writing this article as I think it’s an interesting question.
I haven’t come across many books written about jobs, which is odd considering how much of our lives we dedicate to them. One of the most interesting aspects of jobs, in my view, is HR (Human Resources) — how companies recruit people. Everything I’ve seen and heard about HR professionals is appalling: their approach to recruitment is often idiotic, their value is questionable and if you ask someone who works for a big company they invariably have nothing good to say about HR. This gives me an interesting feature for each chapter — how did I get the job? The characters I worked with will be another interesting element in the book.
In terms of political context an interesting factor is A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) which is so clever that it threatens to take away many types of jobs. One of my jobs (working for the Post Office) felt like it was a role that will soon be replaced by machines; I felt like I was being trained and managed like a robot and the job itself (delivering parcels) is so micromanaged that when the machines take over they’ll know everything their human predecessors did, and do it better (at least in terms of maximising profits).
Maybe all jobs will be replaced by AI and robots soon? This doesn’t worry me as there’s enough money in the system to pay every citizen a Universal Basic Income and people could work as carers, artists/writers/musicians, community entrepreneurs, charity workers, academics, or just follow their dreams. It just needs a change of attitude that fits with new technology, and if you think about jobs they are just tasks that were developed during the industrial revolution. Their central function in our society is never questioned. The technology has changed but our attitudes haven’t: to be “normal” you must get a job.
I still haven’t answered the question about why I’m writing this book about 12 jobs? It feels rather arrogant to say “I’m writing it for people to learn about jobs!” Am I? How do I know if anyone is interested? What if they’re not? I don’t have an answer for these questions but what I can do is make it clear that I’m writing this for my own selfish purposes — because I think it’s interesting and I like to share my experiences in written form– and if nobody else agrees it won’t affect me too much. My pride, vanity and ego won’t be too bruised.
The other purpose of this book is to let people know what I’ve been up to (a nasty voice in my head says “Nobody’s interested and you’re an arrogant shit for assuming that anybody is!”) I have learned to ignore these naysayers in my head. As someone who is always on the move I like to let people know what I’ve been up to. I do this with updates on Instagram, this blog and, sometimes, books.
I find this blog a useful place to discuss ideas, some of which won’t make it into the book, and also my struggles with sloth, complacency and procrastination. You, the person reading this article, can help by writing a comment under here. Comments can help make the book better, as they sometimes challenge my thinking.
Finally, this is a good place to launch my new hashtag: #12×12
by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 19 Mar, 2024 | Opinions, Psychology of Travel
I first published this article in May 2022, just after the Russian Empire invaded Ukraine and I’m re-posting it now as the points I raised here are still very relevant (not much has changed in the Ukraine War).
It’s hard to imagine what could be worse than the barrages that are raining down on Ukrainian cities right now, but the rocket and artillery fire will eventually stop. A more long term risk for Ukraine, one that will permanently hobble its chances of recovery, is a bad peace treaty.
A good peace treaty would recognise Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and the independence of its government, thus enabling it to rebuild. International aid would pour in and the country could quickly recover. A bad treaty, on the other hand, would disable Ukraine’s government, enshrine outside power brokers, and ensure that the country was so dysfunctional that it could never prosper or defend itself with a powerful army.
But surely a peace treaty is just what’s needed for Ukraine? Surely, anything that ends the war is good? That was the thinking in November 1995 when the leadership of Bosnia Herzegovina was bullied into signing the Dayton Agreement, a deal that is nicely summed up by Wikipedia: “The agreement has been criticized for creating ineffective and unwieldy political structures and entrenching the ethnic cleansing of the previous war.”
One of the problems with the Dayton Agreement was that it created a state within a state – the Serb controlled Republika Srpska – which includes the territory on which (according to international courts and tribunals) Bosnian Serbs committed genocide over the mostly Muslim population. The Serb-controlled entity has been blocking Bosnia’s progress ever since the deal and is now demanding independence. After a decade-long slumber, the Western powers are finally waking up to the risk of Russian/Serb mischief in Bosnia and are reinforcing their paltry armed force based there.
The peace treaty itself is “discriminatory” according to Almira Delibegović -Broome KC, a Bosnian/British lawyer based in Edinburgh. Bosnia’s constitution was drafted as part of the Dayton Agreement and the problem is that it assigns “privileged status” to three main ethnicities – Croat, Serb and Bosniak/Muslim. This means that if you are from a minority, Roma or Jewish for example, or even just want to call yourself a ‘Bosnian citizen’ “you cannot stand for the highest political office in the country, be a member of the presidency or the upper house of parliament”. It also ensures that Bosnia’s neighbours, Croatia and Serbia, have powerful levers of control over Bosnia’s triple-headed presidency. An example of this was when Republika Srpska vetoed Bosnia’s attempts to sanction Russia after they invaded Ukraine.
According to Vehid Šehić, founder of the Tuzla Citizens’ Forum in northeast Bosnia, another problem with the Dayton Agreement was that it made all three warring parties – the Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs – responsible for ongoing peace and development: “It’s not natural that the nationalist political parties that were active during the war were then made responsible for implementing the peace. It’s completely irrational. This is why we are still living in the wartime period of 1992 to 1995.”
This map shows the extent of Serb-controlled territory within Bosnia Herzegovina. The Serb area is marked in red
Russia learned some valuable lessons at Dayton
Russia was going through one of its rare moments of liberalism at the time of the Dayton Agreement in 1995. Boris Yeltsin was in power and Russia’s Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin (later to be ambassador to Ukraine) witnessed the treaty’s signature alongside the leaders of France, Germany, Spain, the UK and of course the USA. This so-called “Contact Group” of nations followed the USA, which was driving the whole process forward.
In 1995 Russia and the USA were closer than they had been in a century and when the massive NATO “Implementation Force” (IFOR) was imposed on Bosnia Herzegovina the Russians participated with a paratroop brigade, were given an Area of Responsibility in Northeast Bosnia and, extraordinarily, were under the military command of the overall NATO commander, US General Nash. This proves that Russia and NATO forces can work together perfectly well if there is a sensible leader in the Kremlin.
Things seemed to go well in Bosnia Herzegovina for the following years. All sides were glad the fighting was over and, initially, the Bosnian Serb leader (Milorad Dodik) was a gushing advocate of peace and reconciliation with the Bosnian Muslims and Croats. But when he realised that the West was losing interest, and he was losing popularity, he played the nationalist card and started portraying the Croats, Muslims and Western powers as the enemy. Needless to say, he’s very close to the Russians and who knows what advice, arms and propaganda support they give him.
The irony is that a liberal (Yeltsin) handed over the keys of the Kremlin to a man who believes in a governing style that has more in common with Ivan the Terrible. But it has to be said that Putin flirted with liberalism in his early years and had no objection to NATO expansion — as did Dodik and Victor Orban (flirting with liberalism seems to be a way for modern tyrants to get established).
I imagine that Russia’s former KGB operatives observed the Dayton Agreement with fascination; they would have seen how the West, with the best of intentions, enforced a treaty on a nation that has resulted in a totally dysfunctional state. The Russians can’t be blamed for the Dayton shambles, but they almost certainly learned from it and may see it as a useful model for stirring up trouble elsewhere. Maybe their plan in Ukraine is to rain down death and destruction, exhaust all parties, and then present a peace treaty that is based on “special rights” for the Russian minority as well as a large chunk of “autonomous” Kremlin-controlled territory. It would be a cheap way of controlling a large country: no need for an occupying army when you can veto anything you don’t like. This is what they tried to do with the Minsk Accord and after that failed to deliver Russia a suitable puppet, they invaded.
It would compound the tragedy of Ukraine if the Western powers were to bully Ukraine into signing a treaty with the aggressor that would debilitate them for generations to come. There is a tendency to assume that all parties come to peace treaties with good intentions. Such a mistake could be fatal for Ukraine.
The image associated with this article was designed by the esteemed Bosnian/American graphic designer Čedomir Kostović. This poster appeared in the graphic history book Bosnian War Posters, by Daoud Sarhandi, published by Interlink on May 3rd 2022.
by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 19 Feb, 2024 | My books, Opinions, Psychology of Travel
Art books can be beautiful but often I get a gradual sense of boredom as I turn from one perfect image to another. Too much art, beauty and perfection can be overwhelming.
I don’t like the way art is presented. What bugs me are those convoluted, oh-so-clever texts that are displayed as you walk into exhibitions; texts that are often so full of obscure words that often I think you need to study art at university in order to understand the gobbledegook that curators sometimes write.
Daoud Sarhandi-Williams, the editor and designer, has avoided these linguistic problems in his latest book — Ukraine at War, Street Art, Posters + Poetry. His descriptions of the street art that he photographed in wartime Kyiv are clear and simple. He guides us through 300 pages of Ukrainian street art — some traditional, some modern — like a friendly local, guiding me (or you) through the medieval backstreets of an ancient Italian city; sharing a deeply personal and light-hearted commentary that’s so much more gratifying than the spiel the official tour guide says every day to the latest batch of tourists.
Since visiting Zaporizhzhia last summer, where I worked as a volunteer, I’ve read several books on Ukraine. The only one I’d recommend is called In Wartime; Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah. One is a novel called Death and the Penguin by Ukraine’s most famous novelist, Andrey Kurkov. Apparently it’s quite a famous tome among the literati but I found it glum and disappointing. It has black humour in spades but none of the sparkles of joy and humour that can be found in the works of the great Ukrainian-born author, Mikhail Bulgakov, a master of black humour and author of The Master and Margarita.
But I shouldn’t be too harsh on Andrey Kurkov as he did write an excellent foreword for this wonderful book I’m reviewing. Here’s an extract: “Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry will guide you through today’s Ukraine more honestly than any future history might…What this book shows is the restorative power of art in a time of war…Art let’s us look at today’s pain from the viewpoint of the future, so there can be a future.”
It’s not just the images that make this book worth reading. The concise words that accompany the street art transform it into a great book. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an art book like this, with such a subtle written guide easing us through the images, and the tragic modern history of Ukraine. How did this come about? Why isn’t it presented like every other art book — just image after image but no narrative to pull us along.
To answer that question we need to look to the author, an old friend I used to work with in Bosnia: Daoud Sarhandi-Williams. Daoud trained as a film editor at the BBC in London during the late 1980s, when the BBC had a lot more creative freedom than it does now. You might be wondering “What’s this got to do with it?” My answer is “everything”, as he not only wrote the text for this book, he also did the graphic design. (The book was published by Interlink in the USA and is distributed globally by Simon and Schuster).
Daoud’s method is to put together art books in the same way he’d put together a film: selecting images and words that create tension, make highs and lows, and drive the narrative forward. And it works, just as a good film will keep you glued to the screen for two hours. I was pulled through the pages of the book as if by a string.
The bulk of the book covers issues like historic statues being covered with sandbags to protect them against Russian bombs (an image of Dante’s indignant face, peeping out from a pile of sandbags, pops into mind), modern street art and graffiti, traditional Ukrainian folk-art being adapted to a modern setting (like painting flowers on tank traps); a massive display of captured Russian tanks on show in Kyiv’s main boulevard in the summer of 2022, anti-war graphics; and, the most beautiful chapter “Murals, Murals Everywhere” which consists of massive paintings covering the sides of entire blocks of flats. To my surprise, few of these murals show images of war, they tend to portray people, nature and beautiful images from the artist’s fantasy. There’s a lot of children in the book, making their own art and sometimes selling it, and plenty of flowers which are, the author writes, “cherished in Ukraine.” There are photos of people celebrating, having a good time, proving that life goes on despite the war.
If there is a message in this book it is that artists, and presumably the people of Ukraine, don’t want to dwell on the horrors that the Russian Empire has inflicted on them; they want to celebrate their independence, their freedom, and their ancient culture. A deeper message that I picked up is that the Ukrainian people will never give up. Now they’ve got their independence from the Russian tyrant, there is no way they’ll give it up. Some Western pundits say “If Trump gets in the war is over!” But I don’t buy that line. I’m sure they will fight on, just as the Bosnians did when they were invaded by the much-more-powerful Serbian army and despite the fact they were denied Western arms to defend themselves.
The Museum Blues
By now your attention may be flagging, you may have reached the point that I call “Museum Blues” — when the exhibition, or art book (or this article), has overwhelmed you. When this happens to me, as it often does, in museums and galleries, I feel exhausted.
At this point in the Ukraine book Daoud, the film editor, makes his move. He changes the pace and retains our attention as only the best films succeed in doing.
For me, the chapter on murals was the high point and I needed a break. I was also wondering “How are they made?” Like a butler who anticipates his master’s every need, Daoud plunges the reader into two chapters that give a different perspective: he tells the story of how a group of artists paint a massive mural of “the ghost of Kyiv”, a heroic pilot who stood up to the Russian Air Force when they tried to capture Kyiv in early 2022. The next chapter is a documentary-style presentation of a group of graffiti artists who use their skills to paint camouflage on vehicles which have been donated to the war effort. These chapters are the equivalent of the “making of” documentaries that sometimes accompany films.
Most books of this nature, and most films for that matter, end with a slight sense of disappointment. But Daoud Sarhandi-Williams knows that he must end with a bang. Endings are really important for filmmakers but, I suspect, they’re not for those who make art books. The concluding chapter is titled “To End a Book: In Conclusion”, and it’s a play on the title of a book called To End a War, by Richard Holbrooke, the US Diplomat who coordinated the ending of the Bosnian War in a way that didn’t resolve anything and now, thirty years later, Bosnia is still stuck economically and politically. Holbrooke’s mistake was to award the Serb aggressors with 49% of Bosnia’s territory and force this “solution” on the Bosnians. Subsequently, the same Serbs who ran a war of genocide against their neighbours then set up a racially pure Serbian mini-state within the current nation of Bosnia Herzegovina. What could possibly go wrong?
I agree totally with what Daoud writes in the conclusion: “Russia must be vanquished before any meaningful diplomacy can begin– lest it ends up with a Bosnia-style lethal peace deal. Ukraine fights on with awe-inspiring courage. This quality extends throughout the population…Such bravery and resilience — as well as faith in the power of art — still has the capacity to surprise us. As T.P. Cameron wrote in the trenches of the First World War:
Two things have altered not
Since first the world began
The beauty of the wild green earth
And the bravery of man.
From Magpies in Picardy, published posthumously in 1919.”
N.B. I had no intention of writing a review of Daoud’s Ukraine book as I’d seen it in proof form (I helped in various small ways) and rarely write book reviews. But when I read through the hardback version I released it was quite different, and much better, than the version I’d seen on my screen. It’s a gripping and fascinating insight into a country that is managing to stand up to the world’s biggest bully. It’s also a surprising book in that I had no idea such great street art was being produced in Ukraine, that the local authorities encourage it, and this work may well be the testament to Ukraine’s indomitable spirit, in the future, when they finally break the grip of Russia’s rotten empire.
Ukraine at War, Street Art, Posters + Poetry, by Daoud Sarhandi-Willians, was published in 2023 by Interlink Books. You can get a copy from the publisher here or from Amazon here.
All the photos in this article were taken by the author/designer: Daoud Sarhandi-Williams.
