Validity Period
"Validity period" - is an artistic photo project focusing on the issues of overproduction and ecology.
The co-author is Pavlo Kyryk, a Ukrainian writer and graphic.
Pavlo is a laureate of the Kraków Creative Scholarship 2024,
a laureate of the Literary Competition by Smoloskyp Publishing House 2016, and the author of the short stories book "Job".
Project was created in 2021 in Kraków. Over three months, we visited local waste collection points.
The found objects were used as decorations designed to recreate the atmosphere of domestic life.
The work on the project often turned into a performance.
Random passersby stopped, approached to talk, took photos, and laughed. Sometimes, they even threatened to call the police.
However, most often, they pretended not to notice anything.
exhibition at DOM galerija, Riga, 2024
nomination in The Fine Art Photography Awards 2021
publication in The Eye of Photography Magazine
featured on the Instagram account of World Press Photo
nomination in The Fine Art Photography Awards 2021
publication in The Eye of Photography Magazine
featured on the Instagram account of World Press Photo
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“In recent years, I have tried to photograph people as tired objects that cannot cope with the modern world. These works are aimed at reflection on opposing the pace of society, where constant mobility and information overload have created the illusion of life "in the flow". However, this illusion often hides deep helplessness and mental fatigue. Each shot is an attempt to capture the moment when a person ceases to be just one of millions of pixels on the screen of society.
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The photos reflect what many experience every day:
anxiety, isolation, the ability to hide their true selves behind digital masks.
The project is a process of constant evolution, where new photos constitute further fragments of this great mosaic.”