The Joan Wakelin bursary – in pictures

One of the apartments in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine.
Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Showers must be taken in a hurry because the water may turn off at any moment in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Raya and her granddaughter in a house in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Raya prepares dinner in the kitchen of her home in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine, where she spends most of her day Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

The roof is leaking and after a spring shower it floods the staircase at a home in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Tatania in her bed in Gogol Street, Kiev, Ukraine Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Borya's friend visits the home in Gogol Street, Kiev. During a hairstyling session, they discuss many things Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Sveta's mother, Natasha, returns home to Gogol Street, Kiev, and changes clothes to go to her second, evening job Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Natasha and her daughter Sveta prepare dinner in Gogol Street, Kiev Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Anya looks in from the kitchen balcony in Gogol Street, Kiev, as her grandmother prepares breakfast Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Raya thinks that her granddaughter Anya resembles her very much and allows her to not attend school. They spend whole weeks together Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Natasha gets ready to see friends. She decorated the wall of the home in Gogol Street, Kiev, herself when she was a child Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets

Exterior of the dilapidated house in Gogol Street, Kiev Photograph: Yevgenia Belorusets