By Ronnie Mosley, CapturingGrace.org
Before he ever told me his story, Zhenya’s backpack already said something about the life he had lived.
One patch marked him as part of a specialized anti-drone unit. Another referenced unmanned ground vehicles. Another carried the identity of his team. Together they spoke of a new kind of war—one fought not only with rifles and trenches, but with drones in the sky, machines on the ground, and men forced to think, move, and survive with split-second precision.
“Even now, the emptiness I felt in the orphanage is still there when I am alone.”
But long before the battlefield, Zhenya was a boy from the orphanage system.
Photographer and storyteller Ronnie Mosley visited Last Bell for three and a half intense days at the end of March. He conducted several interviews with our clients in order to tell their stories. Discover the story behind Capturing Grace and how the life of Ronnie’s daughter Christina continues to inspire this work at capturinggrace.org/about-us.