100 Days of War 2022
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, I was forced to leave my hometown, Kharkiv and go to the West of the country. From the very first day, I began to put together photographs and notes in a small notebook, creating a personal record of war and displacement from the inside. What originally stemmed from an intuitive desire to document my experience of war and uncertainty, developed into something broader: a reflection on the notions of home, identity, and displacement. Whilst the work literally describes the sudden evacuation of my family and the consequences of a brutal Russian attack, it also seeks to question the language of photography itself, and its limitations in documenting, representing and affecting conflict.
This deeply personal visual chronicle became 100 Days of War, a project that explores the tension between memory and documentation, the limits of photographic truth, and the search for meaning in the face of destruction.