Three years ago, the photographer Mark Peckmezian made vibrant portraits of youths on the streets of Kyiv and Odesa. “Now there’s nothing in the future,” one says.
, Peckmezian’s portraits became documents of a past suddenly lost, of youth ruptured by violence and grief. Speaking recently by phone, Varvara, a young woman whom Peckmezian met in Kyiv, was in tears from the beginning of the call to the end. Sergey, who appears as a beautiful boy in Peckmezian’s portrait from Kyiv, was now sitting in the dark because of the city’s curfew—light in the window might attract bombers.
At my mother’s house, we sat and cried and thought about what to do next. We decided to run. As soon as we went downstairs we heard the air-raid siren. We rushed to the nearest shelter, a. There were lots of people sitting on the floor, children, dogs, suitcases. After half an hour, the alarm was over. We decided to leave immediately, since there might not be another chance. We got to our friends’ dacha and they took us in, even though they already had nine people in the house.
When it was taken, this portrait was foreign to me—I looked at it and didn’t see myself. It’s from the past, but it seems to be from the future. Now this girl looks more like me than she did then. I’ve always tried to be strong, but in the photo I see fear and uncertainty.My parents sent me and my six-year-old brother out of Kyiv on February 27th. My mother is a doctor who can be called up for military service, so she can’t leave. Now we’re in Poland, in Lublin.
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