About Kristina Bekher

About

I grew up in a small town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which has been occupied since 2014. I had to leave my hometown when I was 14, and for a few years I felt somewhat lost. In 2019, while volunteering in Lithuania, I found analogue photography. It became a way of escaping for a while, but also looking more closely at what was around me and trying to make sense of what I was experiencing. Moving to Europe after the full-scale invasion in 2022 brought another shift. A new place meant new subjects and new possibilities, and my photography changed with it. By day, I’m a software developer. And while AI does most of my coding, it's still me behind my analogue cameras.