Documentary Photo Centre: Ukrainan Art Festival. Pavlo Mazai – Essays

Ukrainan Art Festival. Pavlo Mazai – Essays

Pavlo Mazai is a Ukrainian artist whose work acts as a mirror, reflecting Ukraine’s culture, history, and present-day through diverse and emotionally resonant photography. Born, living, and working in Kyiv, Pavlo’s life—like the world around him—is fluid and constantly in motion. After thirteen years of a faultless career in customs, he chose the path of art. His passion for photography became his new vocation. Crossing boundaries is in his nature.

Mazai’s art exists at the intersection of life and death, beauty and brutality, movement and stillness. His exhibition is not merely a form of photographic self-expression but an existential inquiry that invites viewers into introspection. It reflects the fragility of life in the most literal sense through monochrome images, where color does not distract from the world’s rawness and impermanence.