The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue brings together photographer Marc Wilson's work made in Ukraine in the wake of the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022. Across two years Wilson made repeated journeys to the country to listen to and document the lives of Ukrainians displaced and affected by the war—families in temporary shelters, children's drawings made far from home, communities continuing the work of daily life while bombs fell elsewhere. The book pairs Wilson's photographs with texts by Ukrainian writers Anna Nekrasova, Julia Budnik, Larysa Shyposha and Dmytro Vygovskyi, and with illustrations by three children, Misha, Masha and Tonya. The combination of restrained landscape and portrait photography with first-hand testimony and children's drawings refuses both spectacle and despair, holding instead to dignity and to the particular: a yellow field, a blue sky, a person, a sentence, a remembered house. The title is drawn from a child's description of the national colours.