Ukraine flag, with cereals grains, highlighting farming issues, reduced export of grain and increasing food prices, such as bread and animal feeds

Ukraine flag, with cereals grains, highlighting farming issues, reduced export of grain and increasing food prices, such as bread and animal feeds Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JMD5XK

File size:

50.9 MB (3.5 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5004 x 3552 px | 42.4 x 30.1 cm | 16.7 x 11.8 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

5 August 2022

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. This authentic period view of the recorded location in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is Ukraine flag, with cereals grains, highlighting farming issues, reduced export of grain and increasing food prices, such as bread and animal feeds. The frame also records themes of social history, historical comparison, local history, everyday life, national symbolism, local character, before-and-after reference, flag culture, public expression of identity, place identity, patriotic symbolism, documentary photography, residential flag display, and English identity. For current editorial use, public display and cultural identity provide additional context, especially through the distinction between everyday patriotism and more contentious uses of national imagery. For later comparison, the photograph preserves street furniture and boundaries at the recorded location, details that may look very different after refurbishment. Further associations within the scene are contemporary social history, civic identity, national flag display, street-level symbolism, changing streetscape, public realm, visual archive, and national emblem. References to reduced, feeds, issues, grains, and animal give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is public display and the distinction between everyday patriotism and more contentious uses of national imagery when considered against later change at the recorded location. The wider significance includes patriotism and how national flags can signal celebration, sport, identity or political sentiment depending on context without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.