Kiev

What comes to queer feminism, I don't think about difference but always about similarity and equality. For me the question is not about everyone being equal – "even those with a pink boa around their neck" – but I'd rather see it in the context that everyone is the same.

I understand the word woman outside any strict gender definitions. I can include seemingly unfeminine men in a series of portraits about women. Woman can refer to the feminine and womanly in him.

I find it impossible to understand the existing stereotypes. They are so rude and reflect the reality so little that sometimes it seems that trying to destroy them is not worth it. But when you see the consequences those stereotypes can carry, you begin to think otherwise. Stigmatization produces irritation, disappointment and perplexity. How have people managed to distort thinking and let themselves be affected by the distorted dogma?

I don't shoot lesbians, bisexuals or crossgenders in order to show the otherness of queer. I'm trying to say something fundamental about an universal human being and the difficult, ordinary and pleasant things s/he goes through. I also want to say something about woman in particular, what she goes through and how it leads or doesn't lead to self-sufficiency and self-esteem.