This photo is featured in Winter Promises zine that brings together images created on a winter’s day in Holosiiv Forest - a national park in Kyiv, Ukraine. Originally a site of a monastery built in the 16th century, the area became a line of defence during World War II and has since been transformed by new life and the continuity of nature through the years. 

This photo series is Lidiia’s last date with the park in December 2021 before she had to leave Kyiv forever in February 2022. Now contemplating her personal experiences as a Ukrainian, upheaval of war and how it reflects in people and nature with time, Lidiia explores everyday symbolism, feelings of life and death, feelings of postponed life and learning how to live it during a war, feelings of being ready to fight for a better future yet trying to preserve usual routine as self support, feelings of break and loss, courage and humility, feelings of isolation, loneliness and being a part of something bigger, feelings of constant wait and hope - for loved ones to return, for safety, for a new day, for spring to finally come.

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Produced by plleso
Publication year: 2024
Size: 12.7 x 17.8 cm

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