A young woman from Ukraine holds her baby on her lap. They fled the war. In her hands she is holding a miniature globe — fragile and heavy with meaning.
The composition evokes the Pietà: a mother bearing and protecting. Where the classical image expresses mourning, this photograph captures the beginning of a life surrounded by uncertainty. The globe symbolizes a world increasingly divided and torn by conflict.
In her mother’s lap, the child is safe. Her body becomes a place of refuge. Yet beyond this moment of shelter, a question remains: what kind of future awaits her in a world that seems to be breaking apart?