Since February 2022, the war in Ukraine has left behind shattered cities and devastated spaces. These photographs explore destroyed buildings not as ruins to be contemplated, but as places that still carry the memory of those who once lived there. Light passes through the cracks of damaged walls, illuminating fragments of lives interrupted by war. Within these fragile spaces, the images reveal a quiet persistence: even in destruction, life leaves its trace.
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.
