TRIBUTE TO ODESA
First Edition 2026
TRIBUTE TO ODESA is a photobook by the photographer Laetitia Vançon, designed & published in 2026 as a First Edition of 400 copies by RAYA Editorial.
Inspired by the gesture of offering flowers, it is designed as an object to experience, an invitation to pause,to feel and return. This work is a tribute to the strenght of humanity the photographer encounterd there. A nation standing tall in the midst of political and historial turmoil, at the fragile crossroads of past and future, between memory and reinvention, between violence and vitality.
In Ukraine, as in many cultures, flowers accompany both celebration and grief: weddings, birthdays, commemorations and funerals. They become a simple human gesture when words are no longer enough. A way of expressing care, love, presence and support,
“These photographs are not about action. They are about presence, a presence that endures, that resists, that survives through time. I believe that simple, intimate moments, like offering a bouquet of flowers, have the power to hold our attention. They remind us that behind every statistic is a person: someone with a favourite song, a favourite meal, a family, fears and hopes. Through this object, I hope to offer those who hold it not only something to look at, but above all something to feel.Because to feel is to remember.”
Limited edition of 400 copies
“When I first arrived in Odesa, it was spring, and flowers seemed to be everywhere. They reflected the atmosphere I encountered: a determination to keep living, to reclaim fragments of normal life despite the war. After months marked by the fall of Mariupol, the massacre of Bucha, the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station and so many other tragedies, the contrast was striking. That tension between darkness and life became central to the object itself.”
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