Popiwka

"In Popivka, daily life seems detached from time – a world where the constancy of the moment outlasts everything."

This work is a personal photographic approach to the lives of my cousin's grandparents in the Ukrainian village of Popivka. What began in 2011 with a journey to visit relatives evolved into an intensive documentation of their daily lives through 2014.

In Popivka, time seems to stand still. Far removed from the pace of the city, life there feels almost detached from the present, a radical contrast to modernity, as if the village were existing a century ago. This archaic constancy fascinated me and became the heart of my work.

The photographs capture the quiet, almost meditative atmosphere of this rural existence. At the center are the grandparents and their daily routines, shaped by deeply rooted traditions and a human closeness that is palpable in every image. The camera captured a world where the continuity of the moment outlasts everything else, a visual memory of the subjects, both of whom have since passed away.