“This photo is about the freedom of the body in simple movements,” explains the artist Julia Chumak. “It’s about life at the moment.”
Chumak hopes that this work helps to relay a sense of light, harmony and freedom, “and the fact that a woman can be anything she wants with no boundaries. I really wanted to emphasise that the body of a woman is a formula of lines, flexibility and freedom.”
Julia Chumak was born in a small mining town in the Donbass region of Ukraine. Now, a photographer and artist, she specialises in fashion portraits, nude and travel photography. The recent war in Ukraine spurred her to begin working as a war photographer, where she is currently working to shine a light on the war and its aftermath in her country. “This is the only thing that makes sense for me to do [right now] when my country is at war,” Chumak says. “I used to take portraits of people and teach at a local photography school, now I collect stories of people whose lives have been broken because of the war.”