The Sense of Touch

I travel through Ukraine, gathering stories of its people.

I use a Canon EOS R5 for my photography.

Project about life in Ukraine during the war. When you find yourself in extraordinary circumstances, you feel an urge to touch something just to believe it's real. Living through war, you ache for the support of loved ones. My story is about hugs, touching what matters, and the search for hope.

Ivan and Anna are watching a movie together at a rehabilitation center. Lviv, 2023.

Marta, along with other volunteers, weaving a camouflage net for the military. Lviv, 2022.

Commemoration rite for a fallen serviceman. Lviv, 2022.

Ivanna swaddles her daughter Viktoria in the military uniform of her late husband Volodymyr, killed in action. Lviv, 2024.

Kseniia reaches out to the grave of her husband, who gave his life in the war. Kharkiv, 2023.

Petro lives in a modular container town with his granddaughter. He moved from Zaporizhzhia at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Lviv, 2022.

Timur hugs his pet dog, Luna. He lives in a village with his mother and two brothers. Mykolaiv, 2023.

A mother hugs her son, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Lviv, 2022.

Liudmyla asked her husband Andrii to write "Always Together." After he died in the war, she tattooed those words on her arm in his handwriting.

A married couple displaced from the Kherson region to the Mykolaiv region seeking safety from active combat. Mykolaiv, 2024.

Iryna’s husband was killed right before her eyes, and their house was destroyed by a grenade thrown inside. Bucha, 2022.

Nun Mariia provides exercises for visually impaired children to aid in their vision restoration. Ternopil, 2023.