“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.
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.
