Natalia Smirnova Photography

19/07/2023

Some people have wider wings than the others.

24/05/2023

What we are looking at when we are trying to see things.

22/12/2022

Andrey Bilzho, a certified psychiatrist and a famous Russian cartoonist and a writer, reflects on the war in Ukraine for :
It could not have been prevented. I do not want to enter into a discussion with powerful Ukrainians, whom I admire - but no, we could not have prevented it. That's the tragedy of us who feel all this pain and shame, but no - there was nothing we could have done.

12/12/2022

I, my hasselblad are at it again with the . It’s scary to think about, but I made the first portrait and the first interview even before Bucha. It seemed that then, right then, that we could, that we would help all refugees, renounce this country, that Europe would think of something effective, after all there is international law, one cannot look on helplessly forever at this monster waltz, everything will, should, cannot but end right then. That illusion is long gone.

That's why I pulled myself together and carried on.

My friend Zhenya, who moved in Israel in 2014 and opened there the most significant for the Russian diaspora worldwide Russian bookstore “Babel”:

I am sure that Ukraine will win, and I really want to believe that the Ukrainians will forgive us one day.
I know for sure that everything will be all right with them. I am not so sure about us Russians though.

20/11/2022

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

11/11/2022

Italian

15/10/2022

the uneaten soup and its woman

08/09/2022

23/08/2022

Hasselblad diary

05/08/2022

Danish

14/07/2022

Maxim in : „I don't believe those who say "everything happened slowly and unnoticed". No - we didn't want to notice. We - smart, young, energetic, edgy, riddled with oil money, cheating ourselves and so desperate to believe (in other words - to be cheated) in a brighter future“.