215 pages Photographs and text(s) by Nicolas Dykmans Foreword by Ed Templeton 24 x 21.5 cm Language: English and Ukranian Paperback Publisher: Pizdiets Editions First edition of 500 signed and hand-numbered copies 2025
You Will Not Forget These Flowers is a photographic work by Nicolas Dykmans that turns its gaze toward civilian life in Ukraine, far from the front lines yet deeply marked by war. As the conflict enters its third year and the absence of men becomes increasingly visible, Dykmans focuses on those who remain: people striving to preserve fragments of everyday normality amid destruction, loss, and uncertainty.
The presence of the aggressor is constant, embedded in wounded bodies, shattered facades, boarded-up windows, and the darkness imposed by power cuts. It also lingers in less visible ways, through the spectral remnants of Soviet domination that continue to haunt personal and collective identities. Rather than documenting combat, Dykmans photographs the quiet persistence of life under occupation and threat.
Through intimate and unadorned images, this book reveals how trauma permeates even the most ordinary moments. You Will Not Forget These Flowers is not a chronicle of events, but a meditation on endurance, a visual testimony to how war reshapes daily existence, leaving traces that cannot be erased or forgotten.
