The small finds protection under the big. Elena Guseinova analyzes the photo of the week
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In August 2022, I had to leave Ukraine for the first time after the full-scale invasion began. I was going to a poetry festival in Helsinki. I ordered a banana bag in the colors of the Ukrainian flag especially for this trip. I also asked for an inscription to be made on the bag — I chose two lines from a classic poem by Lesya Ukrainka, where she asks why words are not as hard and tempered as iron or as sharp and merciless as a sword. “The blade clangs against the iron chains / The echo will reverberate through the strongholds of tyrants” — was written on the yellow half of my yellow and blue banana bag. The poet Yulia Musakovska translated these lines into English for me as a friend. I memorized this translation. I imagined how the wonderful people I would meet on this trip would ask me, “What is written on your bag?” And I would quote Lesya Ukrainka, and an irresistible desire to join the clanging of iron chains and the strongholds of tyrants would fill people's hearts. But no one asked me.
Iva Sidash took this photo on February 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C., near the Lincoln Memorial, during a rally marking the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion. A boy is sitting on the steps. A large Ukrainian flag is flying above him. He is holding a small Ukrainian flag in his hands. The little one is protected by the big one.
We cannot see the blue part of the flag, but we can draw it in. In fact, we can draw in the Lincoln Memorial, where the boy is sitting on the steps. And the Reflecting Pool, which stretches from here to the World War II Memorial. And the girl with the loudspeaker chanting “Ukraine will win.” And the woman holding a poster high above her head that reads “Free the Chernobyl defenders.” And the Ukrainian veteran wiping away tears, and the American veterans walking beside him and calling for support for the Ukrainian military, and thus for the protection of themselves. And many more yellow and blue flags. Small and large.
In Natalky Vorozhbit's play Green Corridors, a Viennese philanthropist, who is both noble and lustful, so much so that you don't understand whether he wants to help a Ukrainian refugee or seduce her, says: “These Ukrainians are so funny, they wear their symbols all the time.” However, holding a yellow and blue flag, small or large, or wearing a banana with a quote from Lesya Ukrainka is unsettling. Because it means waiting for questions. Waiting for an opportunity to find clear and sparkling words to describe what it's like to live in a country that has been resisting Russian aggression for 10 years, or what it's like to leave a country where a war of destruction has been going on for two years.
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Olena Huseynova is a Ukrainian writer, radio host, and radio producer. She has been working at Radio Culture (Suspilne) since 2016. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the radio theater and literary programs department. Since February 26, 2022, Olena has been working as a live host of a round-the-clock news radio marathon on Ukrainian Radio (Suspilne). She is the author of two poetry books, “Open Rider” (2012) and “Superheroes” (2016). She writes essays and short prose.
Iva Sydash is a documentary photographer from Lviv, Ukraine. She was a finalist in the 2021 Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards international competition. She works on personal projects, long-form stories, documentary, and reportage photography.
Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she has been documenting the Russian-Ukrainian war, focusing on the civilian population and their lives.
Her work has been published by INSIDER, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, The Fisheye Magazine, The Ukrainians, Bird in Flight, and others. Her images have been exhibited in group shows in Europe and the US. In April 2023, she received a direct grant from the International Center of Photography to study documentary practices and visual journalism in New York. In September 2023, her first solo exhibition, “The Wall: Witness to War in Ukraine,” took place at the Roberta Art Gallery in Wisconsin, USA.
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