The art photography project "Don't Be Silent. Captivity Kills!» is about and for women who fight for the lives of their husbands, fiancés, sons, fathers, friends, and companions, striving to bring them back from captivity. Captivity is an iron wall built by the enemy. A wall of uncertainty, despair, pain, torture, and separation between loved ones.
Photography in the project works like a stencil. It clearly reflects what women do not dare to express, hiding from the eyes of others: pain, despair, anxiety, and fear.
The project aims to support women who tirelessly fight on various fronts every day: they fight, volunteer, evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield, and take care of them. Above all, it is about those who, overcoming the burning pain and despair of the unknown fate of their loved ones who have been taken captive, find the strength to fight for their lives here.
The photo project involved 10 women: mothers, loved ones, fiancées, and one of the girls herself spent a year in enemy captivity. The visual series is enhanced by an audio recording of their personal life stories and those of their loved ones, whom they have been waiting for from captivity for the third year. The project tells about their feelings, experiences, and incredible will and strength — not to give up despite
