YVES LACROIX
Desolation

Two years of war in Ukraine have passed.
It takes place a few hundred kilometers from my home. I know it, I live it, for a year I have been photographing refugees from Ukraine.
It’s in me, I feel this need to get closer to them in one way or another.
Need to better understand what my Ukrainian partner who I met during this project may have experienced, need to connect a little more to her by embracing her history, her culture and her past.

This need to “get closer” to the country, to the history, to the daily life of the refugees that I have been taking photos of for a year.

I am fully aware that I could never truly understand what they experienced or felt, yet I feel the need to know their roots better,, to witness what their lives were like before.
“Desolation” is the first word that comes to mind when I see the scars left by war.
This is my first experience with war.
It is therefore impossible for me not to bear witness to what I see, as an artist but also and above all as a man

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