honorable mention
Alena Grom ukraine
title
WOMB
Near the front line, people live in constant danger. During the war years, thousands of babies were born in the Donbas! Sometimes they were born under heavy fire and shelling.
Hiding from bombing, pregnant women gave birth in basements. They were forced to stay underground in twenty-four hours, for some months. Children grew and developed there. The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than four years, the intensity of military operations has decreed, but artilery bombardments are periodically conducted and people are still forced to sit underground.
In ancient times, the womb indicated the uterus, Earth Mother. Everything what constitutes a closed space is the symbols of the womb. As in the womb, a new life is born, so these artificial wombs allowed to carry and give birth to children.
https://vimeo.com/user82827859/review/284871269/4397e072aa
Born in Donbas and with a background in contiguous field, Alena Grom embraced photography relatively late, treating it as a conceptual art. Mastering the visual language of conceptual photography, the author could not help addressing matters that concern her directly: she shoots not the war in Donbas, but the way society interacts with war and what is left behind it. However, one should not see in these photographs mere illustrations of grief and mourning meant to squeeze out a tear. Her photography is not a lamentation; it is a reaffirmation of life.
Alena studied at various photo schools in Ukraine. She is a member of The National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (NSPAU).
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entry description
In 2014 armed detachments of the separatists with the support of Russia captured Donbass. Under the control of the separatists was Donbass - the largest industrial part of Ukraine, based on coal enterprises.Near the front line, people live in constant danger. During the war years, thousands of babies were born in the Donbas! Sometimes they were born under heavy fire and shelling.
Hiding from bombing, pregnant women gave birth in basements. They were forced to stay underground in twenty-four hours, for some months. Children grew and developed there. The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than four years, the intensity of military operations has decreed, but artilery bombardments are periodically conducted and people are still forced to sit underground.
In ancient times, the womb indicated the uterus, Earth Mother. Everything what constitutes a closed space is the symbols of the womb. As in the womb, a new life is born, so these artificial wombs allowed to carry and give birth to children.
https://vimeo.com/user82827859/review/284871269/4397e072aa
about the photographer
In the spring of 2014, Russia began a mixed war against Ukraine. Now more than 2 million inhabitants who had left Donbass because of the war, have become refugees. Alena and her family had to leave their home and become refugees.Born in Donbas and with a background in contiguous field, Alena Grom embraced photography relatively late, treating it as a conceptual art. Mastering the visual language of conceptual photography, the author could not help addressing matters that concern her directly: she shoots not the war in Donbas, but the way society interacts with war and what is left behind it. However, one should not see in these photographs mere illustrations of grief and mourning meant to squeeze out a tear. Her photography is not a lamentation; it is a reaffirmation of life.
Alena studied at various photo schools in Ukraine. She is a member of The National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (NSPAU).
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