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Carpathian Witches.

  • Photographer
    Michael Dorohovich

There are legends among the people that extraordinary women endowed with supernatural powers live among earthly people. They can control rain and wind, cure diseases, affect wealth and poverty, take milk from cows and women in labor, cast spells and reveal the future... They are often approached with prayers and requests. In the Carpathians they are called Bosorkany.

Michael Dorohovich is a portrait and documentary photographer. Born in the small town of Uzhgorod in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Author of successful photo projects in Ukraine, such as "Famous and interesting personalities of Transcarpathia", "Cultural ethnos of Transcarpathia", which were noted and awarded on many world platforms.Solo mountaineer and specialist in solo mountain trekking (he traveled the mountains of the Carpathians, Crimea, Caucasus, Alps, Altai, Kamchatka, Pamir, and Tien-Shan).Recorded his travels and ascents to the top of the world in photo landscapes.