Sometimes I joke that if I've been working on a project for less than 4 years, it's some kind of project made in haste.

Also, I say that the project is considered complete if I finish it by making an artbook or book.

These photos were taken in 2013, in the last summer before the rashist occupation of the peninsula. My (yet) last trip to Crimea, funny and exhausting as every hitchhiking. Got to Odesa instead of Mykolayiv, swim in the Southern Bug in Mykolaiv at 1 a.m., meet the sunrise on the top of Aq Qaya, drink port "Alushta" in the Tykha bukhta and discontinued penultimate in the world "Marsala" of Masandra under the magic tree near the Church-Lighthouse in Malorichenske, walk barefoot through the mud one and half an hour under the rain and other unpretentious romance of the traveler.

And only after 11 years, in 2024, I made an artbook with this series.

1 "Ukrainer", 31 photography 13x18,  a few stories, written on the back.