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Alena Grom, "It's a Mad, Mad World", (2022)

Borodyanka is a quiet town with a population of 13,000. It is located on the road to Kyiv. In 1240, the city was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars, but later it was rebuilt. In 2022, the Russians turned Borodyanka into ruins.

The city was under occupation for a month. The Russians took over the local psychiatric boarding school, which housed about 500 patients, several employees and no doctors. Russian soldiers set up their positions on the territory of the psychiatric hospital and mined the area around the hospital. Boarding house residents became a living shield for them.

Alena Grom, "Pendulum" (2017-18)

"When war begins, life goes on. Alyona Grom, a photographer from Donetsk [Ukraine] began shooting her region with a camera as the war broke out: capturing its wounds, uncovering from media-militant reality an unobtrusive everyday life – a simple life of ordinary people who fall out from a meticulous eye of military cameramen.

[...] Ms. Grom’s heroes are the entire generation that grows during hostilities. In the center of her frame are children of war, born under firefighting and bombing."