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When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I left my hometown, Kharkiv, and moved west, where I began photographing the displaced and their temporary shelters. One focal point became a derelict dormitory in Lviv, hastily reopened to shelter people fleeing the east.
Over several months of returning there, I realised that photography alone couldn’t convey the depth of heartbreak and hope contained in that space. I began overlaying my images with the residents’ handwritten reflections - fragments of their stories, thoughts on loss, resilience, and the shifting meaning of “home.”
This work is a quiet collaboration between image and text, between my perspective and theirs, shaped by our shared experience of displacement. It’s a record of fragile lives paused in transition, of people holding on, and of home being reimagined amid the rupture of war.
This work is part of the collection of the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography.