Author's description of the project:

A large and important part of my childhood was spent in a small, one-street-long village in the north-east of Belarus. It is located literally between the forest and the river.

From the space of that village and the landscapes adjacent to it, my roots grow. There, as a child, I learned life and death, the cyclical nature of everything, the beauty of nature and the incomprehensibility of the low starry sky. While I was growing up, people in the village died or left for the cities, and almost no one was left there. The kitchen gardens are overgrown with weeds or cow parsnip, the apple trees have grown old and covered with moss, the houses look out through empty, toothless windows. In 2010, I made my first attempts to take portraits of people from the village, and then I left for Moscow. In 2012, I decided to leave to live in another country and I understood that it would probably be for a long time. I wanted to make an important document for myself, to consider and capture images that are important to me. From memories, a sense of belonging and kinship with people from his native village, the photo project "Between the forest and the river" arose.