Anna & Eve

"Anna & Eve" is not simply a catalog; it is a journey into a realm of fantasies and fairytales, overlapping with the realities of everyday life. In addition to my photographs portraying the enigmatic relationship between mother and daughter, this book reveals the insightful gaze of a child into the world of adults through Eve's commentary about the important aspects of our existence.  

This book also opens with a prologue where you will discover Eve's tale about "her planet" as well as a dream-like sequence of images with Anna & Eve, which you will find nowhere but in this book.

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Viktoria Sorochinski left the former USSR with her parents in 1990 at age of 11. After living in Israel, she continued her studies in Fine Arts in Montreal, and then in New York where she currently lives. It was in Montreal in 2005 that she began to photograph a little girl, then aged 3 and her mother, 23, also Ukrainian, just like Viktoria. Today she still pursues this subtle work of observation and interpretation, by capturing the stages of Eve's evolution and her relationship with Anna. Central to this story are the themes of childhood and their corollary of fantasies, fears and the "learning" of motherhood.Drawing on myths, folk tales and popular beliefs, interspersed with a child's perceptions of right and wrong, Viktoria portrays Eve's fantasy world, and her complex and intense relationship with her mother, in impeccably staged images full of a disquieting magic.The personality and presence of little Eve haunts every image. In front of the camera, a strange role-play takes place between the two protagonists as well as between them and the photographer. Behind the fiction, we perceive the real tension. Anna's fragility and Eve's determination. Like Alice in Disenchanted Land, young but highly intelligent Eve seems to be finally holding the strings of their balance and of the story itself. Viktoria, the watchful accomplice, sees and prefigues, making a secret universe of signs and visions manifest. Captivated by these perfect images, where no detail is left to chance, engulfed by disturbing mysteries as well as a sense of wonder, the viewer is quickly lost, as in a game of mirrors.