Valeriia Yeromenko

Biography

Website: https://theeryder.myportfolio.com/

Valeriia Yeromenko, born in Ukraine in 2001, is a photographer exploring light, optics, and reality's nuances. Collaborating with friends in her hometown, she discovered a passion for capturing moments. At 17, she pursued formal education in Slovakia. Valeriia's work delves into optical errors, turning flaws into revelations. Her portfolio, featured in Photo Vogue and various publications, embodies purity and emotion, resonating with viewers globally. Through her lens, she invites audiences to reconsider perception and embrace imperfection, crafting a visual narrative that transcends boundaries.

The project

The project is intended to lead to an exploration of the perspective of imaging through an analysis of the physical properties of light, optical errors and illusions as issues of reality simulation. The distortion expressed through the errors of representation becomes the key to unravelling a type of contradiction between experience and memory. At the same time, the possibilities of creating visual artefacts as images of a non-existent original will be explored in the context of reading an elusive reality. The image can be built on experimentation based on the definition of concepts involving mainly optical errors and anomalies such as aberration, coma, astigmatism, distortion, glazing, after image, etc. The starting point of the topic should be the re-evaluation of imaging based on creative experimentation with optical errors. This is to be framed in content by reflecting on the issue of tolerance of identities, conflicts of coexistence also connected with possible personal emotional states of loss and emptiness.