Photographer Thomas James Parrish’s 'We Are Ukrainian' photo project focuses on both Ukrainians who have lived in Sydney, Australia for years along with those who have arrived as refugees after Russia’s invasion of the country earlier this year.
photo project focuses on both Ukrainians who have lived in Sydney, Australia for years along with those who have arrived as refugees after Russia’s invasion of the country earlier this year., the vivid colors and somber introspective eyes of the subjects of Parrish’s photos beckon a kind of mesmeric gaze and fixed attention of its viewers.
“I live above a public pool and there are children splashing around and laughing and the first couple of days I was resentful, like, how can you be having fun? How can the world just go on? It feels so unfair. Then my mind just went ‘nup, too hard’ and I woke up one day and was like okay back to work . My mind just decided it was too hard to process this so we’ll just go back to the comfortable everyday stuff, and I hated that because I don’t want to not feel it, it felt numb.
Maksym and Kateryna, both 25, moved to Australia from Odessa, in the South West of Ukraine, 1 months before the war began to study at Macquarie University. Photographed in their apartment in Macquarie.“Absolutely I wish I was there. I’m meant to be there. I had a flight that was cancelled because of the war. So I should have been there already. I think about it every day and I do really wish that I was there, which is why I stopped working and am doing as much as I can to help the community.
“I have some friends who are soldiers, and obviously they don’t give lots of information right now because they’re involved in the war. So they can’t shoot and write on Instagram at the same time. But I know one guy, my good friend, he died a few days ago. And the other guys who are fighting, they say that they’ll never give up. So what I’m really proud of is that they are so strong and even though they understand that we are over gunned, we are overpowered by Russia, they still want to fight.
Olga, 32, was born in Kharkiv in North Eastern Ukraine before her immediate family migrated to Australia when she was 13. Photographed in Hyde Park“I play in a Ukrainian music ensemble, which I started a few years ago. Playing violin helps me feel close to my country and to my culture. At every concert I can sense that the audience learns more about my country through songs written generations before, it is deeply moving. So I continue to spread the message of Ukraine through my music.
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