The Wall

The project began in North Saltivka, Kharkiv in Spring 2022, in the area where all the residential buildings are destroyed by russian shelling. I was coming into the burned apartments one by one and documenting what I see, that was horrible for first time as I felt extremely guilty to come to someone's apartment, I was never invited to these places and I felt so bad to be here as a stranger who is entering someone's home without their permission (whose permission, by the way? Who lived here before? Are they alive? What happened here when it was bombed? That was difficult since so many questions arise and also looking at their unmade beds, left dishes on the table, pictures of those who are alive or not and I will never know this. That's hard. I took the first picture inside in the driveway before coming into someone's apartment in a high-rise building. I touched that wall and felt it literally, questioning myself: What are these walls silent about? After a while I started this project in order to keep the memory alive. Pictures taken in Kharkiv region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv region, Mykolaiv region, Donetsk region , this is an ongoing project — I continue traveling across the country, documenting everything around me, and I don't forget to take a photo of one more wall. This is how I want to remind people of those desolate destroyed places, where each has its own memory.