The main goal of this photo project is to save memories. © Stanislav Senyk A student in a graduation sash stands outside of Chernihiv School 34, damaged during the war in Ukraine. Students stand outside of Chernihiv School 34 in their graduation sashes. Another school that we went to in Chernihiv was totally destroyed. The school wasn’t destroyed completely, but there had been a bomb about three metres from the school, so it was so so damaged. I took photos of one of the classes near their school. I had shot a graduation album of students in a village near Chernihiv before the war, so I wanted to go back. A wedding and portrait photographer, Senyk has been capturing images of sadness and destruction amid the war in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24. The FRANCE 24 Observers team spoke to photographer Stanislav Senyk who created the series. ‘These children will one day have their own children and like this they can show them what is happening right now’ Some of my friends and classmates will also continue to study in Ukraine and other countries in Europe.
But I know that each of us has a great and happy future ahead of us! I will be writing my exams and going to university in Ukraine.
Personally, I am very sad not to be finishing school at my desk at school. I am graduating from school in two weeks. And some of us have already come back here to continue our studies and prepare for exams. Some of them will come back only after the war is over. Some of them say they will never come back to Ukraine. A lot of my classmates also went to safer towns, some of them left the country. I was so worried about them – we tried to call every day. But my father and grandmother stayed here. Me, my mom and my brother left town as soon as the war started. © Stanislav Senyk ‘Some of my classmates say they will never come back to Ukraine’ Our photos help us to show the life of children, the life of graduates who were deprived of the happy end of their childhood.Ĭhernihiv student Olha Babynets poses in a graduation sash in front of a broken window. We also wanted to show the strength of Ukrainians. We are the future of Ukraine and we will build a strong and beautiful European country. With these photos we wanted to show our lives, the lives of children who became adults on February 24, who need to fight for their lives and the lives of their families. Her school was luckily spared from major damage from Russian attacks, but she is currently finishing up her classes online. Olha Babynets is a 17-year-old graduating student from Chernihiv who took part in the photoshoot. © Stanislav Senyk ‘Our photos show the life of graduates who were deprived of the happy end of their childhood’ A Chernihiv student poses among the debris left behind by the war in the city. The graduation photoshoot marked Chernihiv students’ graduation using the destruction of the city, with stores, some schools and defunct military equipment as backdrop. One of these was School 21 in Chernihiv, flattened on March 3 by a bomb while it was being used as a shelter. Chernihiv city officials say that only seven of the city’s 35 schools were spared from damage in the war. Some attacks in Chernihiv were “in clear violation of the laws of war”, killing numerous civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, according to Human Rights Watch. When Russian troops finally withdrew from the region on March 31, the city was left in rubble. Chernihiv was the site of fierce attacks by Russian forces after the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
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