During the winter of 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Olivier Roller welcomed young Ukrainian refugees in his home in Paris. From these encounters, made in this tragic context, the photographer has created striking portraits.
Taking the form of short videos, Olivier Roller’s images are frontal and uncluttered: the bodies and faces, framed up close, open themselves up to the photographer’s lens, which slowly focuses on the gaze, fixed or distant, of these young women and men. Their voices, which share their stories, make their shattered existences palpable: broken voices which, beyond words, carry cruel memories, doubts and sometimes feelings of guilt; firm voices too, which tell of their energy, their courage, their commitment to help their compatriots.

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