“[It] makes me feel really good that I was able to transport people into a peaceful time, a different time of Ukraine,” says the photographer of her new book Odesa
Yelena Yemchuk, parts of which are currently on show at the Ukrainian Museum in New York, alongside Yemchuk’s short film,. “I remember taking this picture,” Yemchuk recalls, cautious not to paint herself as something of a mystic. “I didn’t read what it said on her T-shirt. I had no idea [...] I just loved their faces. I took the picture. And when I look at that now, I mean, it’s so symbolic.”
Much of her artistic projects based in her homeland are not the only evidence of what Yemchuk calls “a love affair” with her country.is fragranced with an ardent nostalgia, with the hazy memories of picking dandelions at your grandmother’sThey evoke the aroma of a long summer’s evening, so savoured in lands where winter can feel like an eternity. “Everyone that comes into the show just says, “Oh, my God, I miss Ukraine so much.
Yemchuk hopes that her work also portrays a beauty, a resilience and a strength that the world knows the young people in her images must now grip on to.
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