2,000 new police officers or Patrol Police hit the streets of Kiev in July. Well equipped and dressed in brand new black uni­forms they are meant to show the world the Ukrain­ian government’s inten­tion to cre­ate new police force that can regain people’s trust.

Elena Anosova spent 2 months liv­ing and work­ing in three Rus­sian female penal colon­ies, explor­ing the inner world of the inmates based on her own child­hood exper­i­ences of liv­ing in a closed rehab­il­it­a­tion school. The res­ult is a strik­ing series called ‘Sec­tion’ that reveals how being in con­fine­ment and under con­stant sur­veil­lance dis­fig­ures and trau­mat­ize a person.