/ 2022 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Silver in Portraiture/Self-Portrait
• Photographer
  Marina Overchuk, Ukraine
• Studio
  private person Marina Overchuk

Hello! I'm from Ukraine. And I died yesterday.
Not literally. But it could easily have happened
I was just lucky
I was lucky not to live in Bucha.
I was lucky not to be born in Mariupol.
I was lucky that an enemy missile did not hit my house.
Fortunately, the photos of journalists do not show my mutilated body.
This is a coincidence. Lottery. Game of the Universe.
Each of the Ukrainians could have been killed yesterday, a month ago or on February 24.
Just because we live in our own country.
And each of us dies inside every day. Again and again.
Even while safe.
Even continuing to "live".