The third issue of Solomiya is as desperate as it is full of love beauty courage and an
unsettling longing for a journey an escape and freedom as Yevhen a young soldier from Odesa
puts it in War Dreams a poignant series of portraits by Italian photographers Caimi&Piccini.
While raising thought-provoking questions about masculinity in war through the recent work of
Vsevolod Kazarin Alex Mashtaler's yet unpublished photographs juxtapose the innocence of youth
with the unforgiving harshness of reality - a reality shaped by Ukraine's colonial past and a
present challenged by ongoing militarization. In interviews with the Solomiya Editors Andrii
Ushytskyi Ivanna Kozachenko and Sebastian Wells Asia Bazdyrieva Maxim Dondyuk and Henrike
Naumann further explore these complexities through their own perspectives and artistic
practices. While Ivanna Kozachenko and the artist collective Commercial Public Art dissect the
spatial strategies of the architecture built by Russian forces in the occupied territories of
Ukraine the writings of Lucy Zoria and Sebastian Wells offer diverse insights into the lived
experiences of young Ukrainians abroad.
