Ukrainian school seniors recently snapped a series of aggravating prom photos depicting their youth and expressed optimism about the horrific devastation of the war in their homeland.
Photographer Stanislav Senik told Reuters he wanted to document. A very important story “About 40 students graduate from schools in Chernigov, northern Ukraine, after witnessing horrific wars there.
“I saw the kids there and it was like surrealism,” Senik said.
“I realized that at that moment I could write a very important story about students graduating and witnessing the war, and for that reason, their graduation, on prom night, everything was just crazy”, he said. . “It’s very important to print this memory.”
Photographer Stanislav Senik used the demolition in the eastern Ukrainian city of Chernigov as a relaxing backdrop for an album of graduate students amid the ongoing conflict in Russia. pic.twitter.com/e2GVytwjwC
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One of the photos shows a group of students lying in a tank. The second involves a group of girls in a bombed-out building, while the others look down from the dilapidated floor.
Students described the experience as difficult, but important.
“We want to show that we live in such a reality,” 17-year-old Olha Babinett told Reuters. “We wanted to show our pain, which and never subsided. It was hard emotionally, but we tried to hold back. And I think we did it”.
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In a separate series of photos taken by Abdullah Unveri for the Anadolu Agency, Ukrainian students were forced to skip the prom costume ball in the ruins of a bombed school in Kharkov.
Source: Huffpost
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