Self-Portrait

by Ekaterina Bazhul

I’m interested in punk not as an image, but as an ethic. Punk is not chaos for the sake of chaos. It’s resistance. Freedom. The courage to be imperfect — and feel good inside it. For me, photography is also punk. It doesn’t have to be comfortable, polished, or easily explained. It can be honest. I work with the naked body not as provocation, but as vulnerability. Not to improve it, not to correct it — but to let it exist. Tension, asymmetry, pauses, fragility — this is where I see beauty and truth. Each image collapses into meaning only through the viewer’s gaze. Like a quantum moment. Here, punk is not aggression. It’s permission. Permission to be your own source.