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Anyone who has spent even a single day in a basement, dugout, trench, house or under the open sky near the front line knows well how sweetly one can sleep to the sounds of outgoing and incoming fire, the shouting over the radio, the humming of an EcoFlow and the flickering of a lamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve spent many nights with soldiers all along the front line. Sometimes it was in well-equipped dugouts with bunk beds and folding cots; other times \u2014 in tiny cellars lined with jars of homemade preserves, where, at best, a soldier could sleep right on the ground.
There were times I took the spot of exhausted fighters who longed for sleep just as much. And sometimes there simply was no place to rest at all \u2014 everyone dozed in turns, half-awake. The soldiers were always welcoming, sharing their food generously and offering the best sleeping spots to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capturing a soldier\u2019s sleep at the front is not that simple \u2014 they hardly ever sleep at all. They are always working. I used to wonder: how is it even possible to fall asleep in such places, in such conditions? Now I drift off with pleasure in every minute free from work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To fall asleep somewhere on the front line, I would always play Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin. For me, sleep at the front sounds like his \u201cNocturne, Op. 9, No. 2.\u201d When I look again at those peaceful faces in the photographs, it\u2019s Chopin playing in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask any soldier \u2014 one of their deepest wishes, when they finally get leave or return from war, is simply to sleep. This series speaks of dreams, rest and the kind of peace that, in wartime, can exist only in sleep \u2014 so distant, yet so longed for by everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition was first presented at the \u201cHuman in the Military\u201d conference, initiated by the NGO human rights center for servicemen \u201cPryncyp.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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