The Beauty of Ukraine

The view from above reveals the dimensions of Ukraine as one of the largest European countries. An aesthetic masterpiece of shapes and colours. Ukrainian photographer Yevhen Samuchenko, born in Odessa, has won awards worldwide for his impressive travel photography and his artful aerials - because he captures the fragile beauty of our planet in poetic images. Also that of his homeland, which has abruptly moved into the centre of international attention and seems more fragile than ever.

The Beauty of Ukraine is a declaration of love to the landscapes of Ukraine and at the same time an aesthetic delight. Yevhen Samuchenko shows us the Lemurian Lake from the air, for example, whose unusual pink colour makes it look like a work of land art. He captures a canyon near Kherson in such a way that it looks like a graphic in the lush green landscape. Poppy and lavender fields fascinate with their uncompromising colourfulness, winter landscapes with their monumental silence and reduction.

Media manager, journalist and author Lucia Bondar organizes, among other things, an annual architecture and design forum in Ukraine with her publishing house CP PUBLISHING and is the author of the first Ukrainian design book series. Yevhen Samuchenko specializes in travel photography and drone photography. He is a member of international and national photography organizations and has already won several awards including the third place in Landscape and Adventure / Travel Photographer of the Year 2022 as well as bronze at the VIEPA Vienna Photo Awards 2021.