The Forest of Forgetting

• Photographer
  Ekaterina Malyutina

This photograph is a meditation on the boundary between the human and the natural, the body and memory. The human figure dissolves into the branches of the tree, losing its contours. They become one — a single organism of recollection, where the past exists outside of time. The tree stands as a symbol of memory, rootedness, and the subconscious architecture of the self. The person is its shadow, its breath, its moment of recognition. The softness of the analog image evokes a dreamlike state: this is not a scene, but a condition. Not action, but presence. This work explores how we look into the

I am Russian, I was born in Moscow. I bought my first camera in 2016. Now I live in the small town of Kubinka, not far from Moscow. Photography changed my life. I began to see beauty, to feel. Photography allows me to explore the world around and inside myself. For me, it's an endless search for beauty and harmony. My works are a reflection of my states and feelings.