Tetiana Titkova
Working Title: Where the Silence Lives
Where the Silence Lives is a quiet journey through the rural and semi-urban corners of North West England – a place that became a temporary home for part of my family after we were displaced by the war in Ukraine.
When you’re cut off from home and the people you love, silence arrives early and is often felt sharper: it makes your own thoughts louder, exposes vulnerability, and leaves you alone with questions you don’t always have words for. From the outside, life can look “fine”; inside, everything is still adjusting. In that gap, quiet turns into a mirror.
Living there changed how I understood it. Quiet wasn’t just a lack of noise; it felt like space – space to notice, to remember, and to face what I was carrying. This series is an attempt to see silence not as emptiness but as presence: of light, memory, fear, tenderness, and life that continues even when everything feels paused.
The series stays close to ordinary things: places where time, distance, waiting, loneliness, and love quietly settle. Somewhere within that stillness lies the slow search for grounding and belonging.
Working Title: Borrowed Homes
Borrowed Homes is a project about living in places that aren’t really yours and watching how a “temporary” space slowly starts to feel personal. For almost 4 years my family has been moving between houses, flats and rooms, so home has been something we build again and again.
The project will happen in stages. Right now it’s in the “empty” stage: bare walls, quiet rooms, a flat that hasn’t started living yet, and I’m looking for images that can honestly show that kind of emptiness. Later, as we settle in, I want to photograph the same space as it changes: how objects appear, how routines start, and how a home becomes lived-in. I’m still finding the exact message (and even the light), but I know it’s about displacement, belonging, and the small traces we leave behind.
