4 | Mother and daughter. Photo from the project "Womb". Ukraine, Donbass, Marinka | 2018.
The Womb
«The Womb» is a series of photographs and videos about life during the war. The project was created by a photo artist in 2018 on the front-line territory of Donbass. A Ukrainian photographer from Donbass, Alena Grom, shows life despite the odds. The pictures are based around the stories of women who decided to give birth to a child while living in a war zone.
The photo artist builds her work on medical parallels where soil and shelter take the literal form of a picture of an ultrasound of an abdomen. Residents of mining towns are an intrauterine fetus that develops and lives a full life, but in full dependence on its mother.
To date, the city of Marinka has been completely destroyed. The fate of the children is unknown.