{"product_id":"find-me-near-the-chestnut-trees-by-jule-wild","title":"Find me near the chestnut trees by Jule Wild","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chestnut trees — kashtany — are Kyiv's living symbol. They were there before the 24th of February 2022, and they are still there now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn that day Russia began its full-scale war on Ukraine. Since then, Jule Wild has been photographing her Ukrainian friends, trying to catch something that doesn't sit still long enough to be captured cleanly: \u003cbr\u003ewhat a life looks like when it has to keep being a life anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtlOx1LObY4?si=I-GUNIRLo1g1qQtF\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the people in the book put it more exactly than any caption could: \"staying here, you just get used to it and it becomes part of your routine and your normal life. I don't want to say it's on the background because you're constantly thinking about this. But still you have to keep living, keep working and like keeping sane.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat sentence is the shape of the whole book. Not resilience as a headline, but the strange arithmetic underneath it — the war is never in the background, and yet the coffee still gets made, the cigarette still gets rolled, the joke still lands. Someone quits smoking, then decides to smoke a whole cigarette anyway, and it becomes a small piece of evidence: \"that's what happens during the war. People start smoking more.\" \u003cbr\u003eAntidepressants sit on the table next to the ashtray. Therapy happens in the morning, and it's awful, because it works: \"I realized that I'm not okay.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrief, in the book, doesn't stay in one register. It moves. Early in the war, every death felt individual. Now death has largely become a number — until a photograph interrupts the numbness and makes one person real again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZ1BBsvB9dM?si=1tjuZUXXA03ErBnr\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe future has changed shape too. Not gone, just foreclosed, deliberately, and alongside all of that, something the book refuses to let the horror cancel out: pleasure, still arriving, sometimes larger than before.\u003cbr\u003eA song gets sung. A camera gets picked up for exactly this reason; to hold onto a moment before it's gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book closes on that instinct turned back on itself: the photographer's friend takes hold of the camera, learns which button stops it, and stops it herself. After a book spent watching Jule Wild watch her friends survive a war, it ends with one of them holding the shutter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind Me Near the Chestnut Trees* is completed by personal texts and notes contributed by Anastasiia Kaminska, Oleksii Stislavsky, and Vitalii Matukhno; writing, like the photographs, from inside the difficulty of answering a question that used to be simple: how are you?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jule Wild","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54478084047189,"sku":"JUL-EUD","price":42.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/FindmenearthechestnuttreesbyJuleWild-1.jpg?v=1785156883","url":"https:\/\/www.tipi-bookshop.be\/products\/find-me-near-the-chestnut-trees-by-jule-wild","provider":"Tipi bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}