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This is a documentary project dedicated to the stories of 15 Ukrainian women who were forced to leave their homes due to the full-scale war in Ukraine. They found protection and support in the United States. These are 15 women's voices narrating their stories intertwined with pain and loss.
The project consists of three parts:
Photography: Portraits of Women and their children against a white background, symbolizing a fresh start in their new lives. The Collection Includes 15 Individual Portraits along with an additional collage featuring images of women's new life environment, their kids, and meaningful personal belongings.
The Written Interviews: 15 personal women's stories, where they frankly talk about their experiences, feelings, challenges, also how they escaped from war and coped with losses and grief.
3. Film:
Preview (Trailer): A brief trailer of the full-length film
Full-Length Film: An emotionally powerful presentation, featuring women's interviews, where they share their personal stories.
The Film includes photographs and videos from the women's personal archives, along with the war footage from publicly available sources.
* Katrine Moite is a Ukrainian photographer currently based in New York. Her work focuses on capturing the beauty of pregnancy and motherhood at her studio in Manhattan. Katrine became the ideologist and director of this documentary project about Ukrainian refugee women. Alongside a team of female editors of text, video and graphics, she turned her idea into reality. Together, they unveiled the powerful narratives of Ukrainian women who found shelter and safety in the United States in the midst of war in their homeland.