Ukrainian High school seniors pose for a series of poignant graduation photos, juxtaposing their youth and tentative optimism with the horrifying destruction of war in their homeland.
After witnessing the horrors of the war in northern Ukraine, a photographer wants to document the story of roughly 40 students graduating from schools in the area.
It was like something out of a movie when Senyk saw the children.
He said that he realized that he could write a very important story about the graduations and proms of children who had witnessed the war. It was important to remember that.
Photographer Stanislav Senyk has used the destruction in the eastern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv as a sobering backdrop for an album of graduating high school students, amid the ongoing conflict with Russia pic.twitter.com/e2GVytwjwC
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A group of students are on top of a tank in a photo. A group of girls in a bombed out building look down from the gutted floors above.
The students said it was important.
Olha Babynets said that they wanted to show that they live in the real world. We wanted to show our pain. We tried to hold onto it. I believe we did that.
The Ukrainian students were forced to skip their prom in order to pose in their dance clothes in the rubble of their bombed out school.
A student wearing her prom dress poses for a photo among the ruins of her school destroyed in a Russian shelling on February 27 in the Ukranian city of Kharkiv. Teenagers in their prom gowns held a graduation ceremony in their destroyed school. The photo was taken by Anadolu Agency.
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