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A Glimpse Back to Kyiv 🤍

Added 2025-07-23 17:58:32 +0000 UTC

A Glimpse Back to Kyiv Before We Left

Today I want to share with you a small collection of photographs from the time when we were still living in Kyiv before we had to leave Ukraine.

To be honest, I find myself missing those days more often than I admit. Even though the war had already started back then, things weren’t nearly as terrifying and devastating as they are now. It still felt like everything might end soon… but the years go by, and it only gets worse, darker, heavier.

These photos feel like little portals into a gentler time, into memories that carry light.

Back then, we spent so much time outdoors with friends, constantly exploring nature, chasing locations, creating, shooting, laughing, living. There was always something happening different people, different moments, a lot of energy and motion.

And even though that period was also marked by intense physical pain for me, that’s when I went through ketamine treatment, surgeries, and so much more somehow, what remains in my memory is all the good. That time holds a very warm place in my heart. I know now that nothing will ever be the same again. We are not who we were then.

And war changes us in ways far deeper than people realize, it shapes us, breaks us, rebuilds us into something new.

But I’m grateful this chapter existed in my life.

And I still believe, with all my heart, that there’s so much beauty ahead 🤍