Tag Archives: Ukraine

My work is called “The Inland Empire”, which refers to David Lynch’s movie. This statement is a visualization in a surrealistic vein of my experience.

The conflict continues in the east of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes and all their worldly belongings. When I met people who lost everything I asked them about their experiences. 

It just a few silent and nostalgic landscapes of my not too beautiful but nevertheless lovely homeland Halyčyna – a small district of Western Ukraine and partly Poland.

Recently I started going through my old negatives and made some wonderful reconnections with stories I have not seen for twenty-five years. It is like being reacquainted with old friends.

This photo project is the exploration of the simplicity of life in the suburbs and the importance of the appreciation of the mundane things in life.

In this apparently far away universe, suspended in a distant Europe, the Minsk Protocol was not enough to stop the war at the borders of Donbass and Luhansk.

The word Rodyna, which in Russian means "homeland" and in the Ukrainian language "kinship", a photographic journey through a country he left as a young man.

The most interesting thing for me at present time is portrait photography. No wonder, because the most interesting thing for human is another human.

I belong to the generation born in the country that is not on the map today. This country was called the USSR. Although it has drowned into the history more than 20 years ago, it is still much discussed and talked about.

I am particularly interested in all the stories that the mainstream press don’t consider interesting.

Often forming the vision of the world, people and life we come from confidence, joy and hope to uncomfortable feelings of disappointment, sick and fear. Trying to tell a kid our way

Shestovitsa Village 2012 Nenka Ukraine, photo essay by Dina Oganova It was 2009 when i went first time...

Kiev, Ukraine - April 2014. Ira, a young pro-Ukrainian activist close to the controversial right political party Pravyy...

Street Theography, the conflict between the intimate nature of faith and the public… (photo essay by Kostya Smolyaninov)