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The Wheels of Hope: Skateboarding in Wartime

French photojournalist Thomas Girondel recounts the story of Yurii Korotun, a twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian professional skateboarder who teaches the sport to refugee children in Hannover, Germany, to help them forget about the war. Skateboarding becomes a therapy.

As a skateboarder, you have to be incredibly focused: finding your balance, keeping a tense core, staying upright. There is no time to stop and think. The grief over a loved one or the trauma of war back home vanish for a moment.

I met the profes...

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