Belarus, village of Chereshlja. A man with a dog sitting in a boat.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man sits on a bench with a fish in his hand.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man eats at a table and watches a film on his laptop.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A boy reads a book and his mother knits.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A woman cleans buckwheat.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A woman sleeps with her children on the floor.
Belarus. Two boys play a homemade ball in a village. In the foreground a horse is grazing.
Belarus. Two boys sitting on a cart. In the foreground a horse is grazing.
Belarus. An old woman is sitting on the tree trunks in front of a village house.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. An old man is sitting on a bench in front of a village house.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A boy plays with the chicks and a dog.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man brings a rabbit to a stable. A boy, a horse and a dog watch him.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A horse runs through a meadow.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man fetches hay with a horse.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man with his son water himself with water from the buckets.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man sharpens a scythe.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man with an axe walks through a barn.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man carves in a barn.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man weaves a basket.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A young woman is milking goats.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A boy stands with his father at a wooden fence.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man swings his child on a swing. A young woman is riding a horse.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A boy makes soap bubbles.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A woman with a bucket fetches water. Cucumbers and tomatoes lie on a windowsill.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man collects honey.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man stands with his son and a girl at the threshold of a wooden house.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A man throws up his son.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A woman and a boy roasting fish at a campfire under the rain.
A girl carries a boy home in the rain
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A young woman jumps over campfires at night.
A family with a large shepherd dog stands in front of a wooden house in the village
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A girl crawling on a dry tree with a wreath of flowers on her head.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A portrait of a downshifter.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A portrait of a downshifter.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A portrait of a downshifter.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A portrait of a downshifter.
Belarus, village of Chereshlya. A portrait of a downshifter.

Downshifting is a social trend in which individuals escape consumerism and move away from big cities and industrial centeres to the countryside. Generated mostly by environmental, social and housing problems, downshifting has been gaining more and more strength in Belarus. The villages Chereshlia and Plissa-1 in the Novogrudok region of the Grodno area have become a social refuge for young families with minimal dependence on the state.