An unflinching visual ledger documenting the immediate, chaotic descent into conflict. In February 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Igor Chekachkov was forced to evacuate his hometown of Kharkiv. The book originates from the aftermath of this displacement: a personal record of photographs and notes assembled in a small notebook during his journey west. What began as an intuitive need to record his family’s evacuation and the realities of a land under attack became a rigorous examination of home, identity and the mechanics of memory. Beyond serving as a documentary of conflict, it confronts photography itself, questioning the limitations of an image and its capacity to document, represent and affect the realities of war.