District

The series focuses on a big city’s outskirts, where dark, gray, and concrete reality exists to express the mind and soul. The main interest is focused on the phenomenon of dreaming that lives between these faceless surroundings wrapped in depressing, gloomy, and dull environments versus the young generation with bright minds and pure hearts. The story is about the tension between the outskirts and young people growing up in the Internet reality. The environment is a kind of everyday life battlefield searching for a dream. And a dream is the only thing that can provide faith and hope.

The series were published as a photobook by Syntax that is an independent book publisher founded in Kyiv in 2024. It consists of two parts: a visual series of photographs by Vladyslav Andrievsky titled District and a textual part in the form of an essay by Olha Pavlenko, Prince of his own pattern. 

Vladyslav Andrievsky (1996) lives and works in Kyiv. In 2014 he attended a course at the Photo School of Victor Marushchenko. In his projects, Andrievsky strives to capture the city’s vibrant youth culture, in stark contrast to the bleak housing blocks.