The Garden of My Tenderness

2023-2024

In this series, I wanted to move away from the usual shades of flowers in order to better convey the condition and feelings: from cold shades that are just emerging, as if after a winter frost, to unusual and new ones that appear in colours uncharacteristic for these flowers. To do this, I manually painted each photograph of flowers in a photo editor, as if I were painting a picture, drawing smoothness in some places, shadows in others, and flowers in this case are living organisms — translators of my feelings.

But all these mood colors have one feeling that unites them – it is tenderness. It was in a state of tenderness that I created this series.

Awards

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

Publication

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

VOGUE Italy, PHOTO VOGUE.

FotoNostrum Magazine (May 12, 2024, Part 1, page 156).

Exhibitions

2024 – “Contemporary Ukrainian Photography”, group exhibition, NU ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2024 – Online group exhibition “Invisible Threads”, ARTDOC Photography Magazine.

Collection

Limited edition print from this series is at the private collection I New York, USA.