A Home for Special Children |
"A Home for Special Children" is the name of the institute in which I took photos in Rivne, the Ukraine. The children in this orphanage suffer from different degrees of disability. My interest in photographing this place stemmed from biographical experiences and previous projects in which I dealt with childhood and the discovery of adolescence in children. A childhood that is meant to be present but is gone, perhaps it was never there; an early exposure of sexuality, loss and violence. Our encounter was one without words; their language, Russian, was foreign to me and so were their gestures and mentality. The camera and the action of photographing became the source of our connection- the instants of photography became intimate and private moments, isolated and unique in their familiar daily environment. During my stay at the orphanage and throughout the realization of my experience, I observed a place that is essentially an expression of Eastern European education, characterized by a polite restraint, strictness and nobility. The place forms a sort of micro-cosmos of Eastern European culture
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