Roma Okhotnikov
When the things are falling apart, all the calm of the world is in her big incredibly beautiful eyes
…Because they saw so much already…
Meet Yulia Ganja, closest friend from my inmost circle, filmmaker, founder of night forest film festival, philosopher, sister in arts, member of our duo «Поехали!» (“Let's go”, as Yuri Gagarin said; there’s one more meaning in this band name – “Go crazy!”). We rarely see each other: our towns aren’t that close and to break out of all our activities and homes is mutually not easy. Though once I celebrated my birthday the whole week with her as my only guest most of that time: she dropped by for my birthday and stayed a bit longer, and so we celebrated the week through. Played a lot of music, saw a lot of movies, hanged around the town like two Flying Dutchmans (we both are fast walkers), baked bread in my big Russian oven, met sunrise on the roof, went to the forest, analyzed Hesse's “The Glass Bead Game” (Yulia wrote a play based on it for the philosophical club, which she attended that time), made gigabytes of photo- and video- footage, and on and on. Recently Yulia wrote me, asked how am I, I’ve answered and threw her a link to my page at Flickr. Yulia answered, that she got stuck in, that my photos are magical, she got to the earliest and even in them saw "such a lines and threats". I’m still thrilled and speechless after that answer. So, I made this photo. By the way, Yulia was surprised, that she’s on my cover photo on my Flickr page (that’s for ages and I don’t intend to change it; I’m serious regarding the cover photos), on which you could see, how the things were the moment before falling apart. It’s so incredibly good to have such close and beautiful friends!
mi tsukushita
me wa shiragiku ni
modori keri
"My eyes,
Which had seen all, come back,
Back to the white chrysanthemums"
When the things are falling apart, all the calm of the world is in her big incredibly beautiful eyes
…Because they saw so much already…
Meet Yulia Ganja, closest friend from my inmost circle, filmmaker, founder of night forest film festival, philosopher, sister in arts, member of our duo «Поехали!» (“Let's go”, as Yuri Gagarin said; there’s one more meaning in this band name – “Go crazy!”). We rarely see each other: our towns aren’t that close and to break out of all our activities and homes is mutually not easy. Though once I celebrated my birthday the whole week with her as my only guest most of that time: she dropped by for my birthday and stayed a bit longer, and so we celebrated the week through. Played a lot of music, saw a lot of movies, hanged around the town like two Flying Dutchmans (we both are fast walkers), baked bread in my big Russian oven, met sunrise on the roof, went to the forest, analyzed Hesse's “The Glass Bead Game” (Yulia wrote a play based on it for the philosophical club, which she attended that time), made gigabytes of photo- and video- footage, and on and on. Recently Yulia wrote me, asked how am I, I’ve answered and threw her a link to my page at Flickr. Yulia answered, that she got stuck in, that my photos are magical, she got to the earliest and even in them saw "such a lines and threats". I’m still thrilled and speechless after that answer. So, I made this photo. By the way, Yulia was surprised, that she’s on my cover photo on my Flickr page (that’s for ages and I don’t intend to change it; I’m serious regarding the cover photos), on which you could see, how the things were the moment before falling apart. It’s so incredibly good to have such close and beautiful friends!
mi tsukushita
me wa shiragiku ni
modori keri
"My eyes,
Which had seen all, come back,
Back to the white chrysanthemums"