Belarusian cheesemaker Yulia Bachurinskaya (L) and her husband Alexei Kuchko (R) pose for the picture in the kitchen on their farm in Balazowka, Lesser Poland region, on June 25, 2024. 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)