Buttoning up to tell you that I’m starting a new chapter in this profile.
First, i am starting a project about creators. About people who inspire me, who does thoughtful impact in day to day life. I will be telling a story about them how i can and how i see and feel.
Second, this all will be happening here on my main profile. My personal life, my photography and storytelling projects, architecture and love.
We are all interconnected and i want to show this connection.
Film photos of me by beautiful @mariana_shafro , who is a second person of the project about the creators.
Stay tuned 🤍
( P.S. i couldn’t find the correct version of this song, but this is Flea from RHCP and this song is from his personal project , song called “lovelovelove”)
We were growing up together only first 6 years of Nika’s life in our home. I was rocking her on my knees putting her to sleep, carried her on my hip, played ball, fed her, and just watched after her when my parents asked. And then she moved to another country with my parents when i was 16 and she 6 years old. And then we would meet twice a year, never enough time to get to know each other.
Friendship is always forming through going through hard times, brotherhood forming through everyday life, seeing each other in absolutely different states of their own lives, in a good mood, not in a good mood, in aggression, happiness, support, in periods when you don’t have energy and strength to support, in all these your brotherhood forms, your blood family forms and that’s why it’s so strong and so important connection, which almost impossible to tear apart, if you had it all.
This is interesting to me. I didn’t have opportunity to live this life and experience with you, Nika. And now i am a dad, who always doesn’t have time, you are a student and also working, you have your own life in another city (again), but i feel the connection and the future in this connection and that we are very similar, and so much to discover.
Love you, little sister
Thank you @memostone for this idea of photographing us together ( never thought about it tbh) it was important🤍
Funny, i started to write my thoughts about this year and they were very positive and all about process of progress in time, and then later i looked at all my photos from 2025 and in some ways it was one of the hardest years 😂 Started last year with a car accident then a lot of personal dramas and it was times were i was just screaming my soul out like i never ever did before, i felt like my soul is dying and what is funny that now i feel mostly very happy, i feel very connected to myself and more open to the world.
I remember when i just moved here i couldn’t speak English at all besides knowing words like “apple and banana” and “my name is Mark”, and at that time ( almost 4 years ago) i couldn’t imagine me having a conversation with people, sharing my feelings, etc
Now i almost don’t feel the difference between my native language and English, and this is very important point for me, bc this was my biggest challenge and a lesson this year- making steps from disbelief in myself and starting open up for the opportunities.
Another example is surfing, i felt that i don’t deserve to even start doing that, like it’s too cool, too good for me, i am not enough to fucking do that lmao. And i finally got to the point where i just want to enjoy from what i am doing, from me being me and not waiting for some perfect moment to come.
I spent almost a whole year on focusing on my hunched back, and i felt i will never be able to stay straight, to spread my shoulders. And here i am, a year later keeping my back straight, looking at people’s eyes straight with a feeling that i am enough, that i am who i am, i am Mark i am talented, i put efforts, i am a dad, i feel life, i create, i listen, i support, i am free, almost.
Next chapter is expanding and figure out with the rest of fears of bigger steps, steps that require bigger beliefs in yourself. And more trust and just step by step, baby. Time will tell
30
Я завжди думав, що це вік коли ти відчуваєш найбільшу кризу, вийшло навпаки- відчуваю найбільшу гармонію і найбільше кайфу в житті
Я Марк, люблю життя, намагаюсь дослідити його з цікавих мені сторін, творю будинки, творю деталі у фото, я тато, намагаюсь бути люблячим, вчуся проявляти любов і піклування
Намагаюсь життя це життя і бути щасливим, а не бідкатись на нього
Для мене основна тема і виклик цього року це не жити в ілюзії, ілюзії мрій того, що коли щось буде краще, а творити і створювати це своїми руками
Бути присутнім - цей момент це і є твоє життя, цінувати його - справжній момент, не тоді коли все стане ідеальним, а його , теперішній момент
Дякую цьому року за знаходження друзів тут, і за відчуття, що нарешті мені добре тут
Нарешті мені знову добре з собою
Хтось мене нещодавно запитав, чи це важко бути батьком і я розумію, що я так сильно відчуваю, що це не важко, що це прекрасно, що я нарешті знайшов прекрасний зв’язок і розуміння з сином, і що воно виходить з розуміння себе і з керуванням любовʼю
Чим ближче до себе, з любовʼю, тим краще
п.с на третьому фото це я :)
Олькооооооо, тобі 5!!!!
Ти це любов до життя, ти це життя
Все що навколо тебе ти любиш і любиш досліджувати, любиш любити
Ти такий цілісний у своїй доброті
Я досі дивуюсь, що я у тебе вчуся життя , вчуся бути добрішим і більше любити
Дякую тобі за життя, найкращий бейбік
А я буду оберігати тебе і досліджувати життя з тобою
Люблю
De regreso en Pacífica, Cal. Para fotografiar un poco de surf junto a @markeliusss con la Nikonos V y un Kentemere 400. 🎞️✨
#kentemere400 #nikonosv #filmstreetphotography #pacifica #surf #naturallightphotography
August film of life
1. Ollie and Kodi as always my biggest life. Ollie wearing a butterfly wings.
2. Rare photo of us
3. When i was working in Chasopys in Kyiv it was a time when i was called a surfer….welll.. trying to catch up..
4. Pacifica
5. Very good friends
6. Touch theory, you are the best. Thank you for life and love🤍
7. Lil family here, Nika and mom
8. Freedom
1. Zion national park
Very nostalgic place for me, these greenery and red mountains create a feeling like you know this place, you remember it.
There were so many families and couples enjoying this canyon and i don’t know why it reminded me my hometown with our incomparable tiny canyon to this and also Crimean canyon close to Bakhchysarai where i have a very sweet and cozy memory from our family trip. And this Zion feels like a family.
2. Zion, sitting on top of the Angels Landing, enjoying the quiet and peace , no people around.
3. Mojave, the road from Joshua tree to Zion, very energetic place.
4. Me driving topless bc it was very hot, and i was trying to save my water pump and the car 🤣so, as less a/c as possible.
5. Love these little rhythmic bumps
6. Mojave
7. Bisons on Navajo Nation lands
8. Navajo native man. When i was driving through these lands i knew that i will go through the Native preservation lands and i was thinking a lot about that. About these people, their story, Columbus and all that, and i dreamed to meet someone from them to talk directly about their story and culture. And when i was driving on their lands i saw someone hitchhiking ( big nonsense here actually) and i happily stoped and picked him up, we drew only an hour together, but he told me a lot about their culture, beliefs and a little bit about their medicine. And spirits.
9. Somewhere next to Joshua tree.
Joshua tree is the most magical place where I have ever been, it’s so open to be present. It’s such a simple place and you can very easy feel connected to it.
