WAR IS EVIL

Photographing History—Now and Then

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦This view of St John’s Cathedral, as seen from Garden Road, illustrates an uneasy place of faith in Hong Kong. A once seclusive church is now dominated by modern skyscrapers, bank logos being hoisted way above the Holy Cross. What religion rises...

Freshman

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Man’s thoughts are as wild as an untamed filly. A couple of months ago a weird idea entered my mind and op la! here I am. An anxious freshman, a non-degree student at SCAD Hong Kong, squeezing my camera and about to start a new way up. This is the...

Grace is Brave to Face the Grave

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Children playing in the graveyard, shy and quiet but feeling no grief–perhaps just slightly ashamed of being playful in what must be thought of as an inappropriate place for fun. Stately adults with V-shaped eyebrows and tightened lips, wearing...

Tolerant

I have opened my visual diary on the tolerant page just to discover that my tolerance is mostly aimed at myself. I call myself a thousand names, I sing and talk about myself, I photograph myself, I draw self-portraits on toilet and palace walls. Sometimes I don't like...

Va Disparaître / Markets of Hong Kong

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦 This post is about the Fabric Market, a secluded corner in Sham Shui Po, which is going to be demolished in a matter of weeks or even days. This recent photo was aged on purpose, as this is what the Fabric Market will soon become – another...

Vertigo

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Tell me what it is to be tired. Being virtually in Macau, spiritually in Eden and mentally absent, physically however I remained in Hong Kong. Sometimes the physics matters. The state of being present at three different places at the same time...

Facets

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦A photographer is always free to lead viewer’s admiring eyes towards beautiful faces. The beauty never gets old. And then the very same insane photographer can unveil the seamy undersides. Or can he? No ethics involved.

Hong Kong Is a City of Contrasts

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Whoever puts one’s feet on the leased land of Hong Kong these days finds his or her shoes sinking into the concrete of Asia’s world city. Every next step is a little stickier, slower than the previous one, every breath is a little less deep, every...

See for Yourself

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Hey chap! Move a few huge steps to the left, now take one slightly shorter step forward, shift right a tiny-tiny bit, shake your hands, calm your breath and look down. Can you see him? Meet Nick! Blue on red. Nick says, I'm looking through you....

Ultimate Moving

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦 In the meantime, the author Kirill Voloshin is on the move, as is his family, his belongings, his thoughts and his means of communication. Having left Hong Kong, he is heading towards Nairobi, Kenya. And yes, it is a long way."There is always a...
Grace is Brave to Face the Grave

Grace is Brave to Face the Grave

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Children playing in the graveyard, shy and quiet but feeling no grief–perhaps just slightly ashamed of being playful in what must be thought of as an inappropriate place for fun. Stately adults with V-shaped eyebrows and tightened lips, wearing...

Pole Dance

Pole Dance

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦I am an exquisite dancer, one of a few ever existed who can flap eyelashes in a flat butterflied pattern. I know how to use wind in my dance to avoid unnecessarily touching the ground and spoiling the music with the inevitable tramp. I know as well...

A Milestone

A Milestone

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦I am spending days walking along the fence–hitting rocks, trampling grapes, emptying pockets, scratching my jacket. Here I am, the beholder of true limitation, neither small enough to sneak through, nor tall enough to step over. I can pick a stick...

Ultimate Moving

Ultimate Moving

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦 In the meantime, the author Kirill Voloshin is on the move, as is his family, his belongings, his thoughts and his means of communication. Having left Hong Kong, he is heading towards Nairobi, Kenya. And yes, it is a long way."There is always a...

Va Disparaître / Markets of Hong Kong

Va Disparaître / Markets of Hong Kong

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦 This post is about the Fabric Market, a secluded corner in Sham Shui Po, which is going to be demolished in a matter of weeks or even days. This recent photo was aged on purpose, as this is what the Fabric Market will soon become – another...

Encapsulation

Encapsulation

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦 Rumors are, there is always something present in the air of Hong Kong. Dust, mist, anxiety, pollution, hope, oxygen, airplanes, thunder, kites, hawks, drones, laser beams are drilling through the clouds and leave almost no room for clarity, horizon...

Hong Kong Is a City of Contrasts

Hong Kong Is a City of Contrasts

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Whoever puts one’s feet on the leased land of Hong Kong these days finds his or her shoes sinking into the concrete of Asia’s world city. Every next step is a little stickier, slower than the previous one, every breath is a little less deep, every...

Multi-Storey

Multi-Storey

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Same as people, with their social masks and ever rich inner world, Hong Kong Island is made of layers. Sandwiched between deep tunnels of MTR (local metro) and the Peak villas, Hong Kong Island is packed with levels, floors, double-deckers, trees...

Facets

Facets

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦A photographer is always free to lead viewer’s admiring eyes towards beautiful faces. The beauty never gets old. And then the very same insane photographer can unveil the seamy undersides. Or can he? No ethics involved.