A club with nails hammered in at the end. The inscription reads “Ternopil,” which is a city in Western Ukraine. According to the owner, the handle is wrapped in tape after having broken in clashes with the Berkut.

According to Jamieson, every protester had a helmet, a balaclava, and a club-like implement of some sort.

Brutal as these weapons look, they’re basically medieval compared to modern security forces. “It’s literally sticks and stones,” says Jamieson. “As mean and nasty as they look — and of course they’re intentionally made to look that way — it’s nothing in comparison to a gun.
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“You’d talk to one guy,” says Jamieson. “Asking him, ‘Hey can I photograph this, tell me about this,’ and then one of his friends would start laughing and say, ‘No you don’t want to photograph this, come with me, you want to photograph this instead.’ It was that whole sort of pride thing, like ‘mine’s bigger than yours.’”

The markings and signs of use on each weapon tell their own stories, usually having to do with bludgeoning a policeman.

This protester’s helmet is painted with an image of St. Michael, next to the Ukrainian crest.

Each protester simply held their weapons up as the camera prepared to shoot, leading to a unique composition for each shot.

The inscription on this one says it all.

The inscription reads “Glory to Ukraine.”

The photos in this series were shot at various places around the occupied zone. Jamieson and his assistant would simply set up a black background cloth and shoot in natural light.

There were more advanced weapons in use by the protesters, while others, apparently including automatic guns, were kept locked away in case the situation escalated into open war.