Grief

• Prize
  Shortlist
• Photographer
  Olena Kuznetsova, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2022-2023
• Category
  Europe
• Website
  https://olena.art/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/olena_photography/

They say grief has 5 stages, like 5 train stops to healing. But in the last two years, grief was more of a pendulum, going from one stage to another many times over.

- denial: it can't happen that civilians are shot, bombed, or fall in hospitals, schools, malls. That women and children are raped, tortured, killed.

- anger: we hate them, we will hate them always, let's donate for bullets for the ugly invaders

- bargaining: I volunteer every week for Ukrainian causes, I will be so good - just make it stop

- depression: is there a point in anything in this world

- acceptance: until next new

Olena (Aliona) Kuznetsova is an Ukrainian-American artist living in San Francisco Bay Area. Her main topic is exploration of emotions through photographs and mixed media work. She believes that through self-awarness and mutual empathy, people can acheive more harmonious life.

Awards Black Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
Affordable Art Fair, NYC with SeeMe
Liquid Art House
Ovation Showcase by RAW Artists, NYC
Deep Water at Le Copernic, Switzerland
Palo Alto Art Center with Peninsula Photo Contest 2021 - Honorable Mention
See|Me, Nature/Nurture, Passion, Finalist
North x Northwest: Out of Isolation by Yellowstone Art Museum, 2021
Viridian Artists Presents: the 31st International Juried Exhibition, 2021, NYC
TIFA 2021, '22 - Honorable Mention
BIFA 2022 - Bronze
TIFA 2024, 2025 - Silver
Ukrainian Day at Google Visitors Center (the Huddle), 2024
Burning Man 2023, 2024, 2025