WAR IS EVIL

Still Life

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦When you cut the wire between your mind (give it rest) and your legs (let them work and make decisions), you may unexpectedly find yourself in a unique secluded place. I spent quite some time in this pottery, chatting with the master, looking at his...
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Shia Wong Hip – Something You Have Never Eaten Before

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Frankly speaking, this post is not crystally fair. I reckon I have eaten the snake soup before. But visiting the Shia Wong Hip restaurant in Apliu Street was the highlight of our Sham Shui Po walk on September 16. Scary, exciting, all about food and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Secret Adventures of Dragon Ming

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦I will tell you a short and true story about Dragon Ming and his secret adventures that happened on the night of September 14 somewhere over Hong Kong.   Before doing anything else, on the night of September 14 Dragon Ming put all tired people...
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Cross-Cultural Aesthetic of Macau

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Macau by all means is a great place to visit. Similar to Hong Kong, but in its own charming manner, it really is a soup of different cultures, times, styles, religions, contrasts, colours. A kind of soup you'd love to taste occasionally but would...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Grace is Brave to Face the Grave

Grace is Brave to Face the Grave

January 23, 2019

🇺🇦  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

September 28, 2018

🇺🇦  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

December 19, 2017

🇺🇦  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

August 23, 2016

🇺🇦  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

July 20, 2016

🇺🇦  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

June 22, 2016

🇺🇦  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

May 2, 2016

🇺🇦  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

April 7, 2016

🇺🇦  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

March 13, 2016

🇺🇦  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.