In my project "Photo atelier" I artificially create images of Ukrainians whom I meet on the streets of different cities. I read, remember and show what I saw, staging real situations, trying them on myself. For the most part, these images are inseparable from the city and the place where I saw them. In addition, they are very time-dependent, that is, they have a strong chronological reference. Previously, trips to the photo studio were a mandatory attribute of the era. I decided to use the old way to look at the new world. It's like shooting supercars using the daguerreotype method: the execution technique belongs to the time of the invention of photography, and the object of the shooting is already the future. In my opinion, it is about the collision of the past and the future, although under the shell of the people I show are the same people who actually came to the photo studio 40 years ago. However, the general appearance has changed - it is simplified, unified, in some places even faceless. It is not fashionable to stand out. In provincial cities, there is no concept of "fashion", everyone dresses the same: in summer - capris and sandals, in winter - a sheepskin coat and a square hat, only the color differs. I am trying to show the stereotype of the image of an "average Ukrainian", because in fact the hero of "Photoatelier" is an average Ukrainian, a son of his country, a resident of his city.