{"id":5755,"date":"2025-07-04T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:01:08","slug":"different-beauty-images-from-donbas-in-david-tesinskys-bucharest-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5755","title":{"rendered":"Different Beauty: Images from Donbas in David T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd\u2019s Bucharest exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Different Beauty<\/em>, a recently opened exhibition of works by Czech photographer David T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd, offers a glimpse into everyday life in the war-torn region of Donbas in 2017.<\/p>\n

The photos were taken within the span of only a few days, as T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd traveled to eastern Ukraine to document the lives of women impacted by war. In 2017, he was in Lviv, photographing the soldiers returning from the front and reuniting with their families. He showed some of the images he had taken to a curator, who decided to send him on a photo assignment in the eastern region of the country. He arrived there in an army car, unofficially, as he explains, so that the process would go more easily and quickly. What he brought back were the stories of the people he encountered. Among them are a Russian-born woman fighter who joined the Ukrainian army at 18, a Georgian soldier named Nana – a mother of three children, and a philology graduate turned reconnaissance platoon commander.<\/p>\n

Although portraits of women make up a significant part of the selection, the exhibition covers a variety of images highlighting stories of human connection and daily life in the shadow of the war. Among them is the photograph displayed on the exhibition poster: a child being offered a gun by a soldier. \u201cThe soldiers were giving some supplies to the school as support. They were smoking outside, and gave the kid the gun to see what it feels like to hold it,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

The Bucharest exhibition has the same name as T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd\u2019s first album, released in 2022. Different Beauty<\/em> gathers images taken throughout the photographer\u2019s travels to more than 60 countries, with chapters ranging from the revolutionary youth in Iran to exorcism in Ethiopia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It all began when, after finishing school, he purchased a one-way flight to New York. \u201cI just knew I wanted to travel, take pictures, and experience life,\u201d he explains. Although he had been away before, with friends, this was the first time he had traveled by himself. \u201cI thought I wanted to stay in America. I changed my mind and I left for India.\u201d It has since added up to tens of countries and photo projects covering subjects as varied as the gang-related problems in Guatemala and Mexico, the life of Japanese businessmen, slum life in India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan, and Cambodia, or the LGBTQ movement in Belarus. While in Bucharest for the opening of the exhibition, he photographed Mihaela Minca, a \u201cwitch specializing in traditional Roma magic,\u201d according to her Instagram profile with more than 10k followers.<\/p>\n

As for his next destination, although nothing is set yet, he will open more exhibitions this year in Warsaw, Belgrade, New York, and Jerusalem, showcasing the work of a photographer interested in people\u2019s stories, marginalized communities, and those impacted by social and political conflict.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is on view at C\u0103rture\u0219ti Carusel until July 15.<\/em><\/p>\n

simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Different Beauty, a recently opened exhibition of works by Czech photographer David T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd, offers a glimpse into everyday life in the war-torn region of Donbas in 2017. The photos were taken within the span of only a few days, as T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00fd traveled to eastern Ukraine to document the lives of women impacted by war. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}