Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back Ukrainian photographer and writer Viktoriia Sorochuk. Her photo journal “Diaries During Wartime” ran for a year beginning in our “Belonging” issue. This time she shares two dreamlike images. Dreams of the Big City is an urban sunset taken through a window, creating soft colored bokeh–rounded light blurs–and superimposed landscape. The fogginess and disorientation of the image makes it ethereal and we wonder what is happening in those buildings, behind those windows. It’s ghostly and vaguely reminiscent of a migraine with aura. It’s also quite beautiful. Mermaids is also otherworldly. Viktoriia brings us a blue and green toned exposure of feathery foliage. The color scheme evokes water, thus the mermaids of the title, and you can almost feel the brushing softness of the plant matter. Magical textural imagery and quite evocative.
View Viktoriia’s luminous photography in Synkroniciti’s “Dreams” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
My name is Viktoriia Sorochuk, and my superpower is—well, I am Ukrainian: I can cook a three-course meal even if my fridge is empty, make my husband nervous with just one phrase “Honey, we need to talk” and use Latin quotes just for the sake of making people look at me with round eyes. While studying at school I hated writing essays. It was total torture for me and now I write with great pleasure. The best part is that others like to read what I write. As a kid I tried to learn watercolours but since I wasn’t patient enough today my best friend is a DSLR camera. The result is somewhat instant unless I forget to charge its battery or insert the memory card. I love dogs, good music and good visual art.