"IN THE SPACE BETWEEN TIMES"
The project was born out of a deeply personal loss. After the sudden death of her father in 2021, Oxana Guryanova found herself unable to return to her hometown freely - political circumstances and the war turned even the possibility of a simple visit into a heavy emotional burden.
Photography opened another path. By combining remote shooting with the Shutter App Studio, scans of old family photographs, and analog film, Oxana created a virtual journey back home. Together with her friend, who became her “tripod” in real time, and her mother, who shared images from the family album, she revisited the familiar places of her childhood: the kindergarten, the schoolyard, the Volga riverbank, the old apartment block where she had spent more than half of her life.
Although this journey was made possible through technology, the project is not about digital tools, but about presence and absence, memory and loss. It explores the fragile in-between state - suspended between past and present, closeness and distance, reality and imagination.
The project was also realized as a book, its digital version is available here.
