Photography, because of the apparent ease of its creation, has been questioned from the very beginning. Especially when it came to portrait photography. For example, that photography does not express the soul the way painting does. And indeed, if you just take a picture of a person, you often don't get at all what we see without a camera. And what exactly is it that we see? What makes a photograph a true deep portrait? Filled with meaning and the real presence of the portrayed person? It is the skill of the photographer, not the camera, to take a picture so that the person being photographed says "yes, that's really me".
We'll be talking about it, building our own opinions and, by all means, trying out our theories in practice.
The Displaced Dreams exhibition presents more than 100 photos and several short films created by Ukrainian teenagers who were scattered across different locations amidst the turmoil of war.
The artworks were produced during workshops led by KiNO - an organisation that offers free photography and filmmaking classes for Ukrainian teenagers and young adults – that have been running since March 2022. It showcases the works produced by participants from the London workshop, as well as those from Tallinn, Tbilisi, Zaporizhzhia, and various online workshops.
These stories are not about the war but about what happens against its backdrop – how teenage life flows, what is disturbed, what amuses them in times of uncertainty. How to cope with apathy in a sudden relocation? How to embrace your body when others perceive it as unattractive? How to avoid feeling nostalgic on the subway when the train emerges from a tunnel and the feeling of homesickness overwhelms you? These are some of the questions participants have explored within themselves and their surrounding reality through photography and film.
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