MOMENTUM

When yesterday’s home becomes today’s war zone. An analog series made in the early weeks of the war across Eastern Ukraine - Kyiv, Bucha, Chernihiv and the borders. Quiet observations from a moment when the world shifted into something unrecognizable.

When yesterday’s home became today’s war zone.

When yesterday’s Europe became today’s mirror of a society and political system treating some as guests, some es refugees, some as none.

Living in a decade of everlasting change, we are forced to act, stand up or adapt. As humans as well as as artists.

Where is home supposed to be when all we face and see is crisis after crisis?

When yesterday’s world today seems to be and feel like an entire different planet? When did crisis and change become the new status quo?

This project started on the 40th day of the War when we started two a 2 week long evacuation mission in the war zones of Eastern Ukraine. In yesterday’s world I was a fine art photographer exploring my perception of this world via photography with and while claiming a female gaze. Some moments after yesterday I’m listening to the sound of bomb alarm sirens when passing by checkpoint after checkpoint. I never thought that with the age of 25 my life would turn around so I would find myself in a war zone taking photographs the way I now do. From one second to the other everything is changing. Again. After 2 years of lockdown and still struggling with the aftermath there once again is a new „normality“ with alarm sirens, guns pointed to your head and the certainty that tomorrow again, everything will be different again. And the certainty that there isn’t really a way back. Not as a humanist, nor as a photographer and artist.

This series was photographed in Kyjiw, Butcha, Tschernihiv, close to the Russian and Belarusian border. As well as in a Shelter close the Slovak border and in Medyka, the Polish Ukrainian border, where men from different countries entered Ukraine while women and children crossed the border to get out of their home.