Palm Trees – most people associate the tropical tree with the South Seas, vacations and relaxation. Where no one would expect to find it: along the Ukrainian border. The work POD PALMAMI - UNDER THE PALM TREES explores the question of whether and how the presence of the Russian war of aggression is felt in its absence. In Ukraine's neighboring countries, the war is closer than ever. And yet it remains mostly invisible.

This project is a photographic study of Ukraine's western external borders and a document of a changing area – the geographical line that currently separates Europe from the war.

The photographs were taken since 2022 with an analog large-format camera in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, the Russian separatist state of Transnistria and the autonomous region of Gagauzia.