“At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, I shot everything that fell into my lens - the destruction in Kharkiv and destroyed equipment. Of course, I was not allowed to photograph everything, as it was necessary to obtain accreditation. Gradually, I moved from topic to topic: ruined buildings and people against their backdrop, animals, the work of the military, the dead... War has many faces.,”
The book deliberately bypasses strict chronology. Instead, the sequencing is engineered to draw the viewer from an observational distance directly into the epicenter of the war.
“I aimed to build such a sequence of images in the photobook that even without a direct depiction of explosions or weapons, it would be clear: this is a story about the war,” the photographer stated.
