In Lviv, an exclusive photo project “Generation of the indomitable. The art of creating.”
These are the stories of six indomitable Ukrainians who, through their own courage and zest for life, demonstrate that we are indomitable. The exhibition can be viewed until September 3 at the PM Gallery (17 Kopernyka Street), after which it is planned to be presented abroad.
The heroes of the photo project were seriously injured and need long-term treatment and rehabilitation, but they want to say to society: “We live on, continue to smile, dream, and we want you not to hide your eyes when you see us.”
One of the heroes of the exhibition is defender Mykhailo Bakaliuk. He is tormented by a phantom pain in a leg that is not there. Going to storm enemy positions, a serviceman stepped on a mine. The leg could not be saved. Currently, at the NEZLAMNI center, Mykhailo continues the difficult path of rehabilitation and is preparing for prosthetics. Psychotherapists work with him every day.
“I want people to know: every piece of freed land is given to us with blood and pain. The path to rehabilitation is not always as simple as we think. This is not just treatment and prosthetics. This is a very difficult and exhausting process for each patient: daily work on pain, physical and psychological rehabilitation, socialization. And the idea of this photo exhibition is to show exactly what we are going through,” Mykhailo shares his own experience of treating a war injury.
The co-authors of the photo project idea, Lviv photographers Volodymyr Shurubura, Sasha Sako, Marta Sako and Olenka Galazyuk note that one of the priority tasks of today’s society is the social adaptation and psychological comfort of soldiers with amputations and other severe consequences of war trauma. Therefore, in more than fifty photos, they strive to show how the life of our defenders continues in society, and how, despite severe injuries, they try to return to their normal lives – to their families and their usual everyday tasks.
By the way, the NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center has already received 15,000 wounded since the beginning of the Great War. Here they are provided with all the necessary treatment and rehabilitation. Also, veterans and patients of the NEZLAMNI center told how to interact correctly and how not to behave when you meet a person with facial defects or a prosthesis.
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The NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center is a unique place where adults and children affected by the war receive comprehensive qualified medical care. This is reconstructive surgery, orthopedics and robotic prosthetics. Victims are not only fitted with prostheses, they are made here. The Center also deals with physical, psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation of injured soldiers and civilians. The project is implemented by the First Medical Association of Lviv and the Lviv City Council with the support of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.