The series was created in Crimea in 2011 and consists of more than 100 photographs depicting winter landscapes, Sevastopol, and small towns near the sea. Immediately after Russia’s annexation of the peninsula, I once again carefully reviewed the negatives and painted them.
Such a post-interventional approach to the image may seem quite formal, but in 2014, and even now, the project is a kind of photographic archive that captures my emotional experiences during the occupation of Crimea. The photos took on a new context and ceased to be associated with a carefree holiday, when my friends and I spent hours in deserted places, exploring the sky and rocks, quoting Homer’s Odyssey, picking small pebbles with our hands, sniffing salt air, watching the Black Sea mood and sunsets.
