Yelena Yemchuk – УYY Conceptual shot by Jamie Hawkesworth and

shot by Jamie Hawkesworth and interviewed inside by Cristina Ruiz

dans la lumière et la noirceur

It has ancient traditions associated with it

Bosnian genocide

It gestures towards the idea of photography as an act of inherent scrutiny and of pinpointing and fixing its ostensible and complicated subject

Yelena Yemchuk – УYY Conceptual shot by Jamie Hawkesworth andYY is an acronym for Yelena Yemchuk, meaning the Slavic word for Ukraine, followed by the name of the Kyiv born author of the present book. Given the misleading resemblance between and Y, the title may at first appear to be why why why. The publishing project brings together the author's photographs, paintings and personal archives to bring out the essential elements of her wide ranging and heterogeneous research. The storys time is disjointed in