Father and his bees (2021) Fotoğraf Liliia Kucher tarafından

My father practising traditional bee farming.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, my father left the army, where he served the military police as a prison guard. Around the time when the Soviet Union collapsed, in the erly 90s, he turned to religion, and became a priest and later a beekeeper.

The early 90s and the emergence of Ukraine as an independent country was a time of change for all Ukrainian people. I am not completely aware of the reasons why my father decided to stay unemployed in one of the most challenging times for Ukraine, when the economy was vulnerable and most people lost all of their savings. He never shared his reasons with me. I think that for him this resignation from the military service was a way to find peace, and he was searching for it through working closely wit nature and through religion.


Pigment prints on archival cotton paper

22 x 33 cm on 29,7 x 42 cm paper

Limited edition of 20

Each print is made with archival pigment inks on 100% cotton, acid and lignin free, Hanhemuhle Museum Etching 350 g paper

They are produced by Atelier de Imagem lab, in Lisbon, and certified within the Digigraphie system

The prints are numbered and hand signed by me, and are accompanied by their corresponding certificate

They are sold not framed, but if you would like to order one already framed please contact me directly and we can organise it

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