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PhotographerNatasha Shulte, Ukraine
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Life of line crosses the destinies of millions of children in the world abandoned by their own parents. There are different reasons why a child loses his parents, but very frequently the children are initially born in the families of alcoholics and drug addicted, malicious and eternally drunk they hate children just for fact they were born.Very quickly they forget them. So the children find themselves in orphanages...embittered, small and unprotected... In this project the children of Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy orphanage (from 3 till 16 years old) took part. The project is built on research of inner world of an abandoned child. This project uses pair pictures, these pictures investigate a side of reality in the life of children abandoned by their parents and ask questions: is there any reality for those who since their childhood have not had the most valuable thing in life - homes and families?! What values are priorities for this child? And how material form influences what such child feels? On one pair of photos, the children were photographed in their usual orphanage clothes, on the second photo the image of cleanliness and innocence has been formed. But there are things that unite these two different images and only the viewer himself should want to understand it. Old traditions are honoured in this orphanage, therefore all objects used for photographing belong to the orphanage itself.
main purpose of the project is to pay the public attention to the problems of children without families. I try to bring this information using such concept as "social art", drawing special attention of the public.
www.natashashulte.com
