Breaking the Ice as a Professional Project

For any of you that were a student at the University of Missouri in photojournalism, you'll remember our very first assignment in the first photo class in the sequence - Breaking the Ice - where we had to stop random people and take a headshot of them. I came across this project on The Guardian's website: Ukrainian Miners: Portraits - where photographer Gleb Kosorukov did a similar project featuring Ukrainian miners at one of Europe's largest pits as they finished a six-hour shift. Part of a series of 100 images.