TITLE : WHERE PATHS MEET
SERIES
AUTHOR : TARAS BYCHKO

 

Taras Bychko is no stranger to Woofermagazine.

This time, he presents this series based on the personal experience of adapting after being forced to expatriate.

Capturing one’s own personal experience in a series of photos helps clarify and focus on past, present and future.

“The project “Where Paths Meet” is an exploration of the experience of forced emigration and the deep emotions that accompany this process.

It aims to capture how a person’s inner world transforms in the face of displacement, from uncertainty and fear to moments of hope, self-identification, and acceptance of a new life.

I conducted a study by surveying about 50 individuals who experienced forced emigration.

Their responses allowed me to identify shared emotions, experiences, and feelings, which became the foundation for the photographic project.

Each frame in the project conveys certain stages of adaptation: loneliness, nostalgia, discomfort, while also showing the discovery of new opportunities and moments that shape a new identity.

This is not just about physical emigration, but also about the inner paths each person walks in their quest to find themselves in a new reality.

The photographs create an atmosphere of silence and unspoken words.

They visualize emotional moments—the transition between past and future, loss and discovery, the unfamiliar and the accepted new.

They attempt to convey these moments as symbolic, intimate instances that can only be fully understood by those who have gone through this experience.

The project is based on shooting in the context of change and adaptation, striving to express the depth of personal experience through documentary photography.”.

About Taras Bychko

Was born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1987.

Currently lives in Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK

He works in the genre of documentary and art photography, is a curator, teacher

and judge of various international competitions, as well as a member of the

international street collective Little Box Collective, co-founder of the group

Ukrainian street photography.

Ambassador of Fujifilm – X photographer.

Author of two books: Sykhiv (Lviv, 2020) Two rooms (Lviv, 2021).

Since 2021, he has been working as a curator of photo projects at the Lviv Art Center.

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