WAR IS EVIL

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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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Vertigo

Vertigo

March 5, 2016

🇺🇦  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...

Cross-Cultural Aesthetic of Macau

Cross-Cultural Aesthetic of Macau

February 16, 2016

🇺🇦  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...

Ballerinas

Ballerinas

February 14, 2016

🇺🇦  WAR IS EVIL  🇺🇦Almost everything that you see in people comes and goes unsaid. Words only make the introduction, the rest is done by God. We are all the same and we are all so inconceivably different. Born, touched, loved, excited, tired, deceased ̶ we, the...

See for Yourself

See for Yourself

January 25, 2016

🇺🇦  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....

Still Life

Still Life

January 19, 2016

🇺🇦  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...

Shia Wong Hip – Something You Have Never Eaten Before

Shia Wong Hip – Something You Have Never Eaten Before

September 16, 2015

🇺🇦  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...

Photographing History—Now and Then

Photographing History—Now and Then

September 15, 2015

🇺🇦  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...

Secret Adventures of Dragon Ming

Secret Adventures of Dragon Ming

September 14, 2015

🇺🇦  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...

Freshman

Freshman

September 14, 2015

🇺🇦  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...