The approach of walking as a biographical method of interviewing helped our research participants open up and provide deep spatial data regarding their biographies in the borderlands. This approach allowed a somewhat “paradoxical” freedom of movement in border areas that are usually spaces of limited mobility.

During the course of the EuroBorderWalks fieldwork, the research team from University of Lodz* made several visits to the Polish–Ukrainian borderland, conducting narrative and walking biographical interviews as well as artistic responses to the border and borderlands. As the postdoctoral researcher working on the Polish- Ukraine border I spent the longest period in the borderland area and share some of the images I took whilst conducting fieldwork.