Store. 2019-2021 Village shops. Most of them closed. Some still open.

I photographed them across Ukraine during travels through remote areas where life has been slowly disappearing for decades. Each building was photographed from the front, the same distance, the same approach. Not to aestheticise, but to document. To give each one equal attention. A village shop is more than a place to buy things. It is where people gather, talk, hear news. In places far from cities, it is often the last remaining public space. When it closes, something else closes with it.

I do not know what happened to most of these places. Some are in villages now close to the front line. Some have probably dissolved into time quietly, the way things disappear when no one is watching.

150 photographs. One subject. An archive of what remains.