This aerial view taken on June 25, 2024 shows the farm of Belarusian cheesemakers Yulia Bachurinskaya and her husband Alexei Kuchko in Balazowka, Lesser Poland region. With a smile, enveloped in the steam of a pot of milk heating over low heat,Yulia Bachurinskaya talks about her childhood, when she fell “deeply in love” with cheese.
As a child, from 1994, this Belarusian farmer took part in trips abroad organized by an NGO helping child victims, like her, of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)