Coal mine is a place where they call you "Bro" more often, because in such a dangerous work sense of brotherhood is something natural. Another thing to mention is that you are not wishing good luck to a miners as they are very superstitious people. They consider the Luck as very capricious lady that can turn her back on you. They would rather like you saying « Go with God!» because God will always help.

One of the limitations during the shoot was prohibition of using flash as it may cause the spark and explosion, so we had to use LED panels.

Another one tip is if you are going to shoot in mine don’t rely on your expensive wether sealed camera as coal mine has very fine dust that will kill your camera therefore tape your camera I mean tape every little seam.

Credits:

Photo agency: The Gate Agency

Photographer: Andriy Shevchuk

Assistant: Taras Dziubko