'compedes' - means 'shackles' in latin. This word is coming to my mind because of blindness to anything beautiful that I experienced for last three month of war, while being imprisoned in shackles of uncertainty and fear. This collection is my first attempt to break them and continue living life fully by doing what I love.

Shot on 🎞 Kodak Vision 3 250D cine film using 1978 manual Canon AE-1 camera.

Lviv, Ukraine May 2022

About the collection: 'vide venus denuo' - means 'see beauty/love again' in latin. This serie is my first attempt to make my eyes see and feel beauty again, after being in war conditions for three months. All this time, me and all Ukrainians were in locked psychological state, concentrated on survival, seeing horrors and thinking about them constantly. After a while, mind and feelings went trough transformation and realisation came that life still continues and we need to live on, even with death being so close.