Selfportraits (Patreon)

Sorry for the long silence. My journey began to take too much of my physical and emotional resources.

Finally, I'm alone in Krakow, without plans or filming, and I can afford to just relax and do nothing and not be in a hurry.

This trip was very rich - people, places, emotions. And I am grateful for every moment that happened to me. I am even grateful for the moment when I tried to take self-portraits by the ocean and he decided to drown my phone and take it for himself (I was even sure that I would go buy a new one - but I found mine near a pebble that he clung to when the wave pulled him into the ocean )) I took this situation as a sign - that it is not necessary to shoot. I just need to relax and enjoy the place and the time and put my camera away.

Previously, my travels were accompanied by stressful experiences - for documents, for passport control, for timing ... But I have never been in such peace as now. And now this feeling inside has become so familiar - as if at home?

Before, the world seemed confusing to me, and only at home (in Ukraine) did I feel calm. Now I feel calm in all of Europe (perhaps in the whole world - but this needs to be checked).

I am already planning a trip to Japan in 2025. (I start being so alive that already planed m next year +-)

P.S. the shooting you see was taken at the beginning of summer. And I couldn't show it to you for a long time because it caused me too much sadness. This is the last time I saw my late boyfriend in person. And that one-week vacation with him in Ukraine remained the warmest memory of him.