This series is created using the photogram technique — without a camera, through the direct action of light on objects. The work incorporates bullet casings and fragments of ammunition brought from the front line. They form the image without mediation, leaving their physical trace on the surface.
The series consists of five works. The first presents an image of war: an aggressive, deformed shape resembling a face. The following four are separate figures, referred to as “children of war.” These are different characters, each with its own form and degree of damage: missing body parts, shifted or disrupted structures, fragmentation.
The photogram does not reproduce but records a trace. It captures presence through absence — a contour instead of a body. This makes it possible to speak about war as a multiple experience of loss, where there is no single image, but many different bodies and stories.
The process itself is essential: light interacts with materials that already carry their own history and transforms them into evidence. The black-and-white contrast intensifies this tension, reducing the image to a threshold between form and disappearance.
The face of War
Children of War