DON’T LET ME DISAPPEAR (2024)

DON’T LET ME DISAPPEAR is a project about the City exploring the lives of its inhabitants and the sense of loss.

We have become increasingly entangled in complicated global changes and it’s hard to escape or at least to find support. I’m trying to understand how the events of the past few years affect the City, its people and their emotions through the lens of my own personal experience.

Over the past few years I have been enduring a persistent feeling of loss which has profoundly impacted my perception of the City. Many meaningful connections have dissolved leaving behind a void. A lot of people including me live in a state of anxiety as our once familiar world grows increasingly spectral against the backdrop of the urban architecture so familiar and dear.

The City encompasses more than just its physical landscape and architecture: it carries the imprints of time and our collective memory like echoes of those who passed through it. Amidst uncertainty the city undergoes its own transformations slipping away while simultaneously embracing us. The world shrinks to a shadow on the wall, its plaster flaking and windows boarded-up. And then again, it expands to the rooftops that reach up into the sky towards slowly drifting clouds.

The city moves at its own pace while I desperately cling to it trying to hold on to what truly matters or at least find a sturdy foothold amidst the chaos. I endeavor to transcend time itself in order to preserve what remains as an attempt to prevent both the city and myself from disappearing.

The project was completed in 2024 in Minsk. Multi-exposure was used when capturing some shots.