16/12/2024
My recent month has been full of impressions. I traveled to Amsterdam for two weeks. Because of the war in Ukraine my way was through Poland, so I visited Krakow by the way.
It was so inspiring I hadn’t imagined before. Since I have started doing street photography I haven’t traveled. So the way from Kyiv to Amsterdam was my first trip in 5 years. My eyes were shocked by the changing pictures, I wasn’t able to catch all I wanted with my camera.
But something I catched. This was the view from my room in Krakow. The weather was changing and unexpectedly it started snowing heavily. The buildings colors, the curvy line of a street and the rhyme of white windows and white cars created a harmonic composition that finally unites with numerous snowflakes. After I took it I wrote to my friend that I had been dreaming of this picture for a long time.
When I came back to Ukraine I sent this picture to Yourdailyphotograph.com
Fortunately, it was selected and now available for ordering here
01/12/2024
I continue taking part in the challenge ‘Photo of the month’ organized by Taras Bychko. The topic of November was ‘Unplanned portrait’. I catched a lot of pictures and one of them is longlisted.
Also in October my photo won second place and was included in the catalog of the best works of the month. I’ve already posted it here before the winners were announced, so I’m posting it once again :)
06/11/2024
Today I have published a poetic cycle on my website. I didn’t plan to create something specific, I was shooting intuitively in bw while visiting my grandmother. Every time I was walking by the street that lead me to the center of the city I took my digital camera and switched to bw mode. After some walks I noticed a beautiful story between those images. So here it is, my new unexpected project
Despite this photo not belonging to the new cycle I would like to leave it here, love its tones.
27/10/2024
Autumn melancholy made me keep silence for a while. I was shooting street more than usual during this month and it was quite satisfying. Even participated in a challenge from Taras Bychko. This month’s topic is ‘Color’. Adding some pictures from that I have already sent to his Telegram channel.
Also I visited Zbirka Bookshop, finally saw in vivo the book created by Alex and Rebecca Webb about Cuba. Dreaming to have one for my book collection someday.
Girls who work there gave me a picture of a lamb. I suppose It is risographie, but I'm not sure, gonna ask when I visit them next time.
And then I saw a voyeuristic picture of myself in Zbirka’s Instagram stories. It was a pleasant surprise ;)
05/10/2024
It was my first ever reportage for such an important event.
War Museum, The First of October, Surma War Music Fest.
23/09/2024
I know that it would sound extremely pathetic, but I suppose it was a life-changing week.
On Wednesday I visited a networking event organized by ‘Insha Osvita’. I had a deep meaningful dialogue with Pierre Mohamed-Petit, who is working in Magnum Photos Agency now.
I was deeply interested in listening to his experience and I am grateful for his attention to our practices (we were together with Vika Lisovska there). I found a lot of insights from our conversation that I need to process and structure. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of the event, I was focusing on communication, so I’m adding pictures from my day off yesterday.
17/09/2024
On photo me and the work without title. 2022, printed 2024. Edition of 2.
On Monday I sent my analog work to Prague to my dear friend Evhenia on her future birthday! I printed it in a darkroom on Ilford paper in size of 15x21cm from the film that I shooted before February 2022. It was my second time in the darkroom and the second time I printed the same work as I did during the workshop by Tania Bakum in November 2023.
I don’t see these analog works quality enough for selling, so I have gifted all my first darkroom experiences to my friends.
Soon planning to print the same work once again using the masking technique and another paper.
13/09/2024
Last week I received an unexpected email from reFocus. They suggested me to try my photo in their annual contest. There are 22 categories and they shared with me a code for free participating in one of the categories with a single image. I have been looking through my archive analyzing which of my work would fit into the contest’ format. I’ve stopped at the work from ‘The pool’ series, reconsidering its color. This series has already won Honorable mention in IPA 2022. Will see!
10/09/2024
Today I've decided to start a photo diary page inside my own website. I've come to the point of my practice when the archive that I preciously collected during the last 4 years makes me finally let it go. I'm not sure what is the direct intention of this page, but I hope to keep this page alive as soon as I have any idea to share with.
Today's topic is BW. This summer I was shooting a lot in BW again, as I did in 2022. So this collection (not ready to name it series) of photos was taken in summer 2024 on a digital camera. I highly enjoyed working with these pics. As well as watching them despite its frivolous purpose.
P.S. Just noticed that all these images I took in Radomyshl.
