Images and stories of everyday life in Odessa during the Russian war of aggression – a documentary photographer reports.
Marishka Oliva (photographer and author)
Hosted by Martin Jankowski.
From an interview in the Andorran Daily:
>> Can life go on, even if a state of war is declared?
I experienced this on the very first day I arrived in Odessa. I’d gone out onto a terrace to have a cigarette when suddenly the siren began wailing, warning of a possible attack. I thought that would be my last cigarette, but then a young man came over and lit one for me: “Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, we won’t die today.”
He spoke to them as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
And that’s how Between sirens came about. A photo essay in which I want to talk about precisely that: about life that carries on despite the air-raid sirens.<<
Marishka Oliva’s images do not aim to sensationalise, but to bear witness – by creating visual documents that pay tribute to the complexity of human suffering and resilience. Her project “The Mirrors of the Storm” consists of three independent yet interconnected photographic series, united by a central question: How does violence shape the spaces in which we live, and how do we inhabit spaces that have been shaped by violence?
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