2025-ongoing

This is a tribute to ownership, stability, and the ability to put down roots. What does it mean to claim space—to make a place feel like home—when that home might not last?

The photographs depict the nightstands of Ukrainians. Handmade and restored, temporary and inherited, almost empty and fully cluttered, children’s and adults’.

They are not neutral. Each one is a world of its own, imbued with significance, memory, and intimacy.

A nightstand may not fully reveal a person’s identity, but it can show how they navigate a world where permanence is fleeting. Through this series, the author invites you to look closer, to find fascination in the seemingly mundane, and to reconsider what it truly means to own something.

All nightstands were photographed in a studio, intentionally removed from their familiar environments. Each shoot became an act of “moving”: every nightstand was physically transported to the studio and back. What began as a project born from the fear of having to leave home again gradually turned into a practice of constant relocation.