Meeting ‘Ekaterina’: A photographer’s passage on looking for life and love in Ukraine – The Washington Post

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A photographer went on an imaginary search for a girlfriend. Here’s what happened.

Photographer Romain Mader puts himself in front of the camera as he searches for a girlfriend.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/29/meeting-ekaterina-a-photographers-passage-on-looking-for-life-and-love-in-ukraine/

“It’s 16 June 2009, the BA0882 lands at 3:05 p.m. on Ukrainian soil and takes me for my first trip to the land of the Slavs and to the birthplace of Milla Jovovitch, the pretty redhead of The Fifth Element.” This is how the journal-like text in “Ekaterina” begins, as photographer Romain Mader travels to Ukraine, photographing an imaginary search for a girlfriend.