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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Вересень-Жовтень 2023 5 Stryi to Yahidne by Romana Mykhailevych Oksana Piaseckyj, UNWLA Culture Chair Romana Mykhailevych, our cultural intern during the summer of 2023, was determined to document the war with photographs and her personal reactions when she returned to her hometown, Stryi, when the war broke out. With guidance from her teacher Mr. Yee-Fun Yin at the Taft School in Connecticut, she borrowed a camera and bravely start - ed a journey on her own that unexpectedly turned into a book. Stryi to Yahidne is an attempt to express feelings and thoughts in stories and pho - tographs. When the war russia launched against Ukraine brought terrible destruction and death, Romana realized how fragile her home is. Thus, when she went to Ukraine in the summer of 2022, she started taking photos to capture things she wanted to re - member. Thinking that it might be the last time she got to see the place where she grew up as it was, she decided to capture her life in photographs to save everything that was dear to her on a memory card. The title consists of the names of two towns in Ukraine. Stryi, Romana’s hometown, rep - resents the starting point both in her life and in her journey to central and northeastern Ukraine in the summer of 2022. Yahidne, a town in the Chernihiv region, was liberated after the start of the full-scale war and radi - ated the strongest feeling of love for freedom and courage for resistance. The book’s first part is centered around Ro - mana’s reaction to the war. The photos in the chapter “Reactions” were taken during the first few months of the war. They pre- sent violence and pain, emanating from the physical destruction that she saw. As Romana returns to Ukraine for the first time after the full-scale invasion, she tries to grasp the im - mediate changes the tragedy brought. The second part is a reflection where she starts to see the war as a parasite. The photo - graphs in the chapter “Reflections” were tak - en in Romana’s hometown a year after the beginning of the full-scale invasion. They give a small insight into how the war influenced the daily routine of people in Ukraine and how it changed the author and her life. Romana emphasizes that she was lucky to live in the western part of Ukraine, so her reflec - tion in the second part is heavily shifted towards presenting the inconveniences of the war rather than its brutal consequences. It is a beautifully orchestrated book that UNWLA members can or - der by emailing romana.mykhailevych@gmail.com .
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