Landmark*
(2022 – 2024)
The photo series "Landmark" reflects and analyses the consequences of the destruction of space's natural and civil architecture during Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The project focuses on several years of observation in my native Kyiv region, from its liberation (de-occupation) to the present. Through its photographs, the project explores how memory evolves over time and what becomes a support for remembering.
"Landmark" is not merely an object for determining location, either literally or figuratively. It represents a process of acknowledging and understanding the destruction, tragedy, pain, and fear experienced by people after the devastation of both urban and natural spaces.
While observing and returning to the same places and liberated territories after a certain time, it's important for me to tell the story about space, people, and their concordance through the length of time perspective. I have tried to combine contemplating the individual memory in the face of this cruel genocidal war Russia started against our country and the global fragility of the world. It is also a way of manifesting our tragedies and pains through individual and collective memory. And it is also a way for all of us to realize that this cruel war destroys people in different ways. And even if these consequences or injuries are not always visible, they destroy us both from the inside and the outside, affecting our future.
IRPIN / BUCHA / MOSHCHUN / BORODYANKA / DMYTRIVKA / HORENKA / HOSTOMEL / KUKHARI / PIDHAYNE / TETERIVSKE / ZHEREVA / ZHEREVPILLYA / LUK'YANIVKA
*This is a short selection of pictures from the photo project Landmark .
(2022 – 2024)
The photo series "Landmark" reflects and analyses the consequences of the destruction of space's natural and civil architecture during Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The project focuses on several years of observation in my native Kyiv region, from its liberation (de-occupation) to the present. Through its photographs, the project explores how memory evolves over time and what becomes a support for remembering.
"Landmark" is not merely an object for determining location, either literally or figuratively. It represents a process of acknowledging and understanding the destruction, tragedy, pain, and fear experienced by people after the devastation of both urban and natural spaces.
While observing and returning to the same places and liberated territories after a certain time, it's important for me to tell the story about space, people, and their concordance through the length of time perspective. I have tried to combine contemplating the individual memory in the face of this cruel genocidal war Russia started against our country and the global fragility of the world. It is also a way of manifesting our tragedies and pains through individual and collective memory. And it is also a way for all of us to realize that this cruel war destroys people in different ways. And even if these consequences or injuries are not always visible, they destroy us both from the inside and the outside, affecting our future.
IRPIN / BUCHA / MOSHCHUN / BORODYANKA / DMYTRIVKA / HORENKA / HOSTOMEL / KUKHARI / PIDHAYNE / TETERIVSKE / ZHEREVA / ZHEREVPILLYA / LUK'YANIVKA
*This is a short selection of pictures from the photo project Landmark .
