When our paths cross

• Photographer
  Yves Lacroix
• Socials
• Website
  https://yveslacroix.com/

“When Our Paths Cross” is the fourth chapter of my photographic journey in Ukraine, begun in 2023. Guided by chance encounters, I seek the truth of presences — faces and places that reveal fragments of the Ukrainian soul amid war. Through portraits of soldiers, mothers, children, and landscapes marked by conflict, I explore identity, resilience, and hope. This work is a visual journal of a wounded yet standing Ukraine, an intimate testimony of lives resisting erasure.

• Biography
  My name is Yves Lacroix (the cross in english), but I am not a believer. I was born in the Paris region in 1972, and I now live in Nice, France. I am a photographer and a dreamer of cinema. An introvert by nature, I see photography as a means of expression—a personal language through which I question the world and convey emotion. Influenced by a childhood often spent alone in front of the television, I developed a strong sensitivity to visual storytelling, blending fiction and reality in an aesthetic marked by solitude, ambiguity, and duality.
• Awards
  August 25: Lensculture Editor's pic "Through the cracks within us light penetrates" & "When our paths cross" October 2025 Exhibition «Through the cracks within us light penetrates» Festival «Regards croisés» Aix en provence, France. March 2025 Finalist Rencontres Photographiques Boulogne Billancourt. March 2025 collective exhibition «Square» Decode Gallery Tucson AZ USA 2024 Annual Photography Awards 1st Place Winner / People: Documentary with «When our paths cross». 2024 Annual Photography Awards 2nd Place Winner / Fine Art: Places & Spaces with «Through the cracks within us light penetrates». Life Framer editor’s pick «When our paths cross» Article l’oeil de la photographie «Through the cracks within us light penetrates» Article 9lives magazine à propos de «Through the cracks within us light penetrates» 2024 Exhibition « The Villains » Galerie de l’institut Paris France 2023 Annual Photography Awards winner Fine Art Conceptual with «The villains».