Before you is the first part of a project that serves as an attempt to capture how differently people perceive and feel the harmony of the world around them.

The concept is simple: each participant (male or female) received this handmade artbook and was asked to paste in two printed photographs (10x15 format) that they (he or she) considered beautiful. I did not specifically select professional photographers or artists—I was interested in the raw, sincere, and subjective gaze of any individual.

3004 is not just a number. It is the number of kilometers this album traveled by mail and through the hands of various people before returning to me in Odesa. The first part of the project managed to visit Kryvyi Rih and twice reached both Lviv and Kyiv.

However, life made its own adjustments. Unexpectedly for the project itself, images of war appeared in the artbook alongside peaceful aesthetics. What we consider "beautiful" or "important for memory" has transformed along with us. 

Authors of the first part: 2-3 p. Viacheslav Onyshchenko , 4-5 p. Tetiana Kyhyliuk, 6-7 p. Anastasiia Vasylivna, 8-9 p. Dmytro Nepomiashchyi, 10-11 p. Anhelina Tarasenko, 12-13 p. Mariia Honchar, 14-15 p. Nadiezhda Anzhelina, 16-17 p. Nikita Pochtariuk, 18-19 p. Kateryna Bohdanova, 20-21 p. Maryna Oleksiienko, 22-23 p. Volodymyr Landin, 24-25 p. Nataliia Mykhailenko, 26-27 p. Yuliia Khrapova, 28-29 p. Milana Myinia, 30-31 p. Nataliia Karpenko, 32-33 p. Olha Kuznietsova, 34-35 p. Samara Ratnayake, 36-37 p. Mariam Hubenko, 38-39 p. Yevhen Bondarenko, 40-41 p. Dariia Hordovska, 42-43 p. Adriana Dovha, 44-45 p. Anastasiia Mindak, 46-47 p. Kateryna Kovalenko, 48-49 p. Yevhen Bushmakin, 50-51 p. Manchik, 52-53 p. Yevheniia Muntian, 54-55 p. Anonymous, 56-57 p. Daryna Dubovetska, 58-59 p. Kateryna Moskaliuk.