Marysia Myanovska
OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
Ukraine
OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
The Troyeshchyna district of Kyiv, Ukraine, is the place where we were born and spent our childhood. Separated by a river, it is the largest dormitory suburb in Europe - a ghetto for working class people, who lost their jobs and their confidence in the future. My older brother personified the first generation of young people in the independent Ukraine of the 1990s. He entered the world of criminality, heroin chic, MTV, sex and the first wave of techno.
Live fast, die young.
I saw his life and his ‘lost generation’. I heard a lot from my brother, I saw a lot with my own eyes. Due to the big difference in age, I did not always understand.
My brother died in 2018.
This project explores how time and place affect a person's destiny. I use my own memories about my brother, the memories of people who were his friends and grew up with him, and reflect them to the same places today. I recreate fragments of his own biography and explore how young people have changed in the last 15 years.
Grisha
Grisha
Tima, Nov 2019
Tima, Nov 2019
Nothern edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
Nothern edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
Destruction due to air strike, Apr 2022
Destruction due to air strike, Apr 2022
Maria and Oleg, Mar 2021
Maria and Oleg, Mar 2021
Thermal Power Station on the North edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
Thermal Power Station on the North edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
Victoria, Jun 2022
Victoria, Jun 2022
Maria and her sister Alexandra, Mar 2021
Maria and her sister Alexandra, Mar 2021
Maria and her sister Alexandra, Apr 2022
Maria and her sister Alexandra, Apr 2022
Grisha and Slava, Apr 2022
Grisha and Slava, Apr 2022
Grisha and Tima, Mar 2021
Grisha and Tima, Mar 2021
Victoria, Apr 2022
Victoria, Apr 2022
Volonteer defender, Aug 2022
Volonteer defender, Aug 2022
River Desna, Southern edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
River Desna, Southern edge of Troyeshchyna, Nov 2019
Northwestern edge of Troyeshchyna, Aug 2022
Northwestern edge of Troyeshchyna, Aug 2022
Troyeshchyna, Apr 2022
Troyeshchyna, Apr 2022
Tima at his home, Nov 2019
Tima at his home, Nov 2019
In the middle of Troyeshchyna, Apr 2022
In the middle of Troyeshchyna, Apr 2022
About Marysia Myanovska
Marysia Myanovska is a Ukrainian photographer, born on February 15 1990 in Kyiv, and currently based between Kyiv, Ukraine, and Cracow, Poland. She is a graduate of the Victor Marushchenko School of Modern Photography, and works on projects about Ukrainian youth in ghetto districts, exploring connections between the territory and the people who inhabit it. Her works have been published in Camera Austria, The Calvert Journal, Vice, and Bird in Flight magazine.
She is the winner of the Street Child UK project 2023, finalist of Futures photography 2023, finalist of the Hamburg Portfolio Review 2022, participant of the exhibition curated by the Hamburg Portfolio Review in Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 2022, and winner of the 2022 Nikon Noor Workshop for Photojournalists in Dusseldorf. Myanovska is co-author of the concept series for Serhiy Zhadan's art book Psalm of Aviation in 2021. She also participated in the “Connection Attempt” group exhibition at the Malaya Gallery of Mystetski Arsenal in Kyiv, 2021, and the “In the Name of Freedom 2.0” group exhibition at the A/E Gallery, Potsdam in 2022.