Every time a photograph is transformed, it loses quality. If the same photograph is subjected to several modification processes, it will lose quality each time, so the image will be distorted and pixelated. The same happens with human beings, when we face transformations in our lives, we lose our innocence and purity. We are still the same person, in essence, but the personality is transmuted and distorted, just like a photograph.

On 24 February 2022, Russia began a full-scale invasion in Ukraine. All Ukrainians have been affected by this new condition in their homeland, by this genocide that is raping their daughters, killing their sons and exiling their grandparents.
This project attempts to approach the war through twenty different testimonies of refugees that are living in Berlin. Twenty sincere, impressive testimonies, full of love, sadness and anger. Of people who, like their portraits, have been changed and transformed by the horrors of war.

It pretends to find a parallelism between their lives in Ukraine and their lives in Berlin through this diptychs. They all have a story to tell and I tried to give them the chance to shout it to the world.

This project is about documenting and talking, and overall, exposing in a more intimate, deep and personal way what is happening right now, in the 21 st century in Europe.These 20 people have different stories and have lived the war in so many different ways but they all finish the interview with same phrase:
“Do not forget about Ukraine”.

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"WHEN THE SILENCE MEANS FEAR: DO NOT FORGET ABOUT UKRAINE"

Serie of polaroids + Limited edition book, mixed media. 2022.