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This is a story I’ve been living with for 10.5 years—a quarter of my life.

Through self-portraits, I explore and express the emotions and inner states I’ve experienced since losing my home in 2014 due to the war in Ukraine. It was the house where my children were born—my shelter, my bunker. But in 2014, it was uprooted, burned, and erased from the map of the Donetsk region in Eastern Ukraine, leaving a deep void in my life.

I moved several times within Ukraine, but in 2022, after the full-scale invasion began, I was forced to leave my country and relocate to Valencia, Spain.

I try to stay strong. Sometimes I even try to say a final goodbye and let it go. But in my memory remain the dates that split my life into “before” and “after.” In memory remain the unanswered questions and the street names of my hometown, where I left a part of myself—once and forever.

 

Ruined dreams...

Erased memories...

Broken lives...

 

WHERE IS MY HOME NOW?

 

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AWARDS:

-Finalist, "Kamira Photo Award 2025"

-Grand Winner, Jury Special Mention, "Black&White Photography Awards 2025" (category Conceptual/Hybrid)

-Nominee, "11th Fine Art Photography Awards 2025" (category Professional/Experimental)

-Finalist, "4th Female Photography Awards 2025"

EXHIBITIONS:

- "Kamira Photo Award", Paris, 2025

- "4th Female Photography Awards", National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy, 2025

-VDNG, V'yava, Ukraine, Kyiv, 2025

PUBLICATIONS:

-DERGREIF Magazine, "What (Dis)Appears" issue, 2025

-ArtDoc Photography Magazine, "Beyond the Frame" issue, 2025

  • "ROOTS"

    Until 2014, I imagined myself as a tree whose roots grew deep underground.

    To all my husband's requests during 2012-2014 to move from Donetsk to Kyiv, I replied that large trees cannot be transplanted because they will die.

    But everything changed in one minute
    on June 3, 2014, when outside, where my children were playing, Kalashnikov rifles sounded, and in that endless minute I realised what the greatest fear of my life is.

    We collected some clothes that just had time to collect,
    and left Donetsk on June 5, 2014.

    As it turned out - forever..
  • "WOUND"
  • "BROKEN"
  • "ADDRESSES"
  • "PARTING"
  • "DATES"
  • "NO WAY BACK"
  • "DREAM"
  • "FEELINGS"
  • "CONNECTION"
  • "LET IT GO"
  • "DONETSK-KYIV-VALENCIA"

    Our family house was situated near Donetsk airport (DOK), which was destroyed at the very first days of the war beginning in 2014.

    After moving to Kyiv, I was leaving near Boryspil airport (KBP), which was closed in 2022 since the full-scaled war began.

    Occasionally my house in Valencia is situated also near airport (VLC).

    So many changes, so many movings during 10.5 years..

    My destiny lines seems to revert into geometric map.
    The map of my memories..