In 1999, a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Oddy spent a month on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. He’d gone there to explore the sprawling network of some 2500 sanatoria that had once been an integral part of the Soviet Union’s healthcare system. Traveling between Odessa and Yalta, and armed with his 5x4 large format camera, his aim was to coax these institutions that had been the Eastern bloc’s equivalent of spas into revealing something about the obsolete political system that had led to their creation. Behind this corridor’s multitude of doors, dozens of baths unseparated by partitions, lay waiting for patients undergoing hydrotherapy treatment cures at the Miskhor Sanatorium that is now marooned in Russian occupied Crimea.