Insula is about the lost island of childhood. With my camera, I capture the process of growing up of my children and the invisible border that arises between us. Children build their own world, and I am learning to let go and accept that. In this process, I relive my own period of growing up, in which a significant place was occupied by the experience of the absence of boundaries, subjectively perceived then as the absence of love.

The territory where children live and grow up acts as a separate character in the project and plays an important role. This is the island that children are mastering, gradually expanding boundaries.

Parental love is the whole world for a very young child. For a teenager, boundaries are a way to try out, go beyond and see that the possibilities are limitless. The task of parents is to learn to let go, providing exactly as much freedom as is necessary now.

The black and white photographs are stories about children, about their journey and the study of life in the contours of parental love. The coloured ones are about my personal colourful memories of my own childhood island.

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About
Veronika Trubnikova is a Moscow-based artist born in Siberia (Russia). She graduated from Rodchenko Art School in 2022 and has been actively engaged in photography since 2016. She uses digital and film cameras but prefers analogue shooting in natural light. Her photographs and books participate in exhibitions in Russia, Greece and Spain and have special mentions from the jury of international contests. Veronika works in the genres of portrait, landscape, and imaginative storytelling. Awards and Mentions: 2022 19th Julia Margareth Cameron Award. Special mention of the jury and 2022 1st B&W Athens Photography. Shortlist, participant of the festival.