I Collect Flowers For Life, Part 2

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Flowers
• Photographer
  Nataliia Hresko
• Technical Info
  Sony Alpha 6300, Lens 16-50mm, Scenography
• Photo Date
  2023-2024

Making this art during the war in Ukraine, my Motherland, it is a my way of confrontation from war, because flowers are symbols of life, faith and strength. Collecting flower compositions, I tried to get closer to way of depicting the world, like in the Folk traditional Art, I was looking for a method to create simple and understandable images, to talk about my pain, sadness, fascination and dreams. The series includes more than sixty floral still lifes. Each composition has a description, which allows me to reveal the idea of ​​the work more deeply and show my emotions.

I live and work in Kyiv. Studied in the `Kyiv School of Photography` In a year of learning, I developed expertise and discovered a fascinating world of art photography. I was studying aesthetics and composition under the mentorship of a renowned Ukrainian photographer and art expert - Dimitri Bogachyk. Photography for me is one of the ways of self-expression. It is full of freedom to express, create and inspire. It is as a way to capture a moment, embrace it with my vision and evoke deep emotions in the viewers and allow them to feel the harmony within the scene.