Julia-Anna Simonchuk

  1. A still from a short film where an old photo camera Chaika II is providing a testimony of what it saw.but couldn’t capture
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    Testimony of Chaika, Julia-Anna Simonchuk , November 2024, film, 3 minutes, (film still)

    It is a film where the protagonist and narrator is an old photo camera Chaika II. The camera is an artifact from a collection of Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius, Lithuania (former KGB headquarters). Chaika is providing a testimony of what it saw but couldn’t capture and is reflecting on the nature of documentary photography and uses and abuses of technology.

    ©the artist