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Taras Bychko23Street Photography of the Soviet Heritage in Ukraine

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Taras Bychko

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A woman in black stands at the door of a green makeshift building beneath a golden church dome, an old car in the foreground, in a color photograph by Taras Bychko.

Ukrainian photographer Taras Bychko joins Eyeshot 50mm to talk about “Out of Time”, a visual journey through the Ukrainian towns and suburbs where the Soviet past endures. Rather than approaching his work as strict documentation, Bychko frames street photography as a space where history, emotion, and ordinary gestures intersect.

Bychko’s images move beyond documentary work, exploring moments where daily life and timeless emotion coexist. In this conversation, he reveals how photography can resist chaos and preserve beauty even in uncertainty.

The full interview offers a thoughtful reflection on photography as an act of preservation, attention, and resistance to forgetting.

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Out of Time

Taras Bychko

Edited by Marco Savarese

“Out of Time” is a visual journey through the Ukrainian towns and suburbs where the Soviet past endures, not as memory, but as presence.

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