Where do I even begin?
This trip home turned out to be incredibly special for me, because I was given the chance to join one of the missions with
@frida_ukraine and be part of something truly meaningful.
A bit of context. This organisation brings together doctors from all across Ukraine. People who already work intense, demanding schedules five days a week in hospitals and yet choose to spend their only days off travelling to frontline areas, voluntarily and without any pay, to provide medical care to those who otherwise have limited or no access to it at all.
In just two days, they managed to see over 187 people, delivering more than a thousand consultations. And I was simply lucky enough to be there, capturing these moments through my lens.
I am endlessly inspired by these people. In those same two days, they identified eight serious pathological cases, including four severe dysplasias, cancer, and conditions that can only be treated abroad. Diagnoses that can quite literally save lives.
And the people there… they live in constant anxiety. Loss of loved ones. No stable connection. No proper transport. Limited access to news, to care, to normal life.
And yet, they welcomed us with so much warmth, gratitude, gifts or self-written poems, that when I came home, I spent an hour simply crying. Maybe it was the collision of two realities?
I fell in love with that place. And with those people.
Once, during a life coaching session with
@sandra_lna , I was asked who I see myself becoming, not in terms of a job, but as a person.
And the people I admired most were always those who help others. Those who give.
I realised that everything I do has always been about people. For people. My photography is about stories, faces, experiences.
And I know it always will be.
