TITLE: Escaping

Escaping is a visual journey through untamed nature and the inner world — where darkness holds light, and light promises freedom. A series of memories, desires, and silent hopes. Horses and birds carry us between the wild and the ethereal, between what binds and what releases. This is not an escape from something — it is an escape toward: toward air, toward stillness, toward the self.

AUTHOR: Darina Shaposhnikova (United Kingdom)

Darina Shaposhnikova, also known as Darina Umka, is an art photographer working with cinematic imagery and poetic light to create immersive visual worlds suspended between reality and imagination. Her work often captures fleeting, atmospheric moments where emotion is conveyed through mood, movement, and visual storytelling rather than narrative.