Mention honorable dans la catégorie « Argentique »

This collaborative photography project connects two amateur photographers, Anna Chyrykala and Daria Bogdanova, across borders. Loading a single roll of film in Warsaw, Anna captures the city's everyday backdrops and scenes, then sends it to Minsk, where Daria turns her attention to its people, capturing them blindly, unaware of what the film already holds. The two cities merge seamlessly on a single roll, sometimes in unexpected ways, blurring the boundaries between places and moments.

At its core, the project explores human connections across borders, reflecting the feeling of being suspended between two places: your homeland and a newfound home. Through silent exchanges between friends and the shared lens on daily life, it tells a story of wordless understanding of being on opposite sides of this experience.

It speaks to the experience of leaving and the contemplation of staying, showing how crossing city borders shapes our sense of belonging. What we leave behind never fully disappears. It lingers within us, merging past and present into a dreamlike mix of memory and reality. In this way, the roll of film becomes a delicate map of memory, tracing the intersections of places, moments, and the people who inhabit them.