Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kyiv during February 2014. In November 2013, President Yanukovych's government rejected a far-reaching accord with the European Union in favour of stronger ties with Russia, and thousands of civilians poured into central Kyiv to take part in peaceful protests. When Taylor-Lind arrived on 1 February 2014, the square was under siege, surrounded by police loyal to the government; rising tensions culminated in the worst day of violence on 20 February, and the following day Yanukovych fled Ukraine. In all, three months of protests resulted in 112 confirmed dead and many more missing. The portraits are uniformly shot against the black backdrop of the improvised studio, removing the subjects from the context of the barricades just a few feet away. The 'fighters' are identified by their homemade body armour, the 'mourners' by the flowers they brought to pay their respects to the dead.