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Tango0127 Jan 2018 4:24 p.m. PST

…of color?

""When people ask me about my background it becomes a long explanation," says photographer Liz Johnson Artur. "I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and I was born in Bulgaria…"

Johnson Artur is one of a small population of "Russians of colour" born to Russian mothers and African or Caribbean fathers who were offered free university education in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

After making contact with her father for the first time in 2010, Johnson Artur decided to start documenting the stories of some of the 40,000 other "Russians of colour", alongside journalist Sarah Bentley…"
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