“The Garden of My Tenderness” is a visual meditation on vulnerability, inner growth, and the quiet strength that lives within sensitivity. Through floral forms, the project explores emotional states that often remain unseen – tenderness, fragility, longing, and resilience – treating them not as weakness, but as a fundamental source of life.

The works are created using scanography of real flowers, later transformed through digital drawing and painterly interventions. Coming from a background in visual art, I intentionally blur the boundary between photography and drawing, allowing each image to exist somewhere between captured reality and an imagined space. The flowers originate in the physical world, yet are displaced into a suspended, timeless environment where it is unclear whether they float in air, water, or memory.

This deliberate ambiguity mirrors the nature of inner experience itself – fluid, intangible, and difficult to define. Carefully chosen color palettes and digital brushwork soften the photographic surface, dissolving sharp edges and shifting the image from documentation toward sensation.

In “The Garden of My Tenderness”, flowers are not decorative symbols, but metaphors of the inner body – living organisms that carry emotion, memory, and transformation. The project invites the viewer into a quiet space where reality and imagination overlap, and where tenderness becomes a form of resistance, growth, and light.

Awards

2024 – Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers

2024 – Neutral Density Awards (ND Awards) – 2nd Place and Silver Star in Professional category Nature/Other

2024 – Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers

2024 – FORM PHOTO AWARD – Shortlisted Photographer

2024 – 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Winner in Professional category Nature

2024 – Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – Honorable Mention in Professional category Nature/Flowers

2024 – International Photography Awards (IPA) – Honorable Mention in Professional category Nature/Flowers

Publications

Book “100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers”, Form.PARIS, Paris, France, 2024, pp. 106-107

VOGUE Italy, PHOTO VOGUE (portfolio, 2023-2024).

All About Photo Magazine (AAP Magazine) – Colors, Issue 51, August 2025, pp. 98-100

ARTDOC Photography Magazine – Expressive Aesthetics Feature, Issue 5, 2025, pp. 6-11

FotoNostrum Magazine – May 12, 2024, Part 1, pp. 154, 156

Exhibitions

2025 – Exhibition “NEW VOICES”, curated and organized by Form Gallery, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France

2025 – Exhibition “100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers”, XVIII Festival Ukrainian Spring, Lazega Poznanska, Poznan, Poland

2025 – Exhibition 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Gallery Valid Foto BCN, Barcelona, Spain

2025 – Online Exhibition “The Meditative Lens”, Part I: Patterns of Stillness, ARTDOC Photography Magazine

2024 – ST-ART Strasbourg, Form Gallery, Strasbourg Exhibition Park, Strasbourg, France

2024 – Form Photo Award Exhibition, Talmart Gallery, Paris, France

2024 – PX3 Annual Winners’ Exhibition (screened), 24b Gallery, Paris, France

2024 – Art Market, Ukrainian Design and Innovation Week, NU ART Gallery, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2024 – Exhibition “Contemporary Ukrainian Photography”, NU ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2024 – Online Exhibition “Invisible Threads”, ARTDOC Photography Magazine

Collection

Limited edition prints from this series are at the private collections in Ukraine, France and USA.