Reporters Magazine. Heirs

The sixteenth issue of the literary reportage and documentary photography magazine Reporters is about the continuity of generations that has been taken away from us, and the legacy that we are regaining and striving to pass on to our descendants.

We talk about what it means to be the heirs of great losses — a legacy without things, a memory without archives — and how, with all this behind us, we can try to stitch continuity and change everything for the sake of the future.

The inferiority complex that afflicts many Ukrainians comes from there — from the robbed and murdered people, our ancestors, who in each generation had to build everything from nothing, rather than multiply tradition.

Today, we are perhaps the first generation in a long time that has something to pass on again, or rather, even to scoop up a little legacy from the past. The generation that will inherit this legacy is already partly here — and will soon take over the country. We do not yet know what it will become for them: a country of war or a country after the war. What will end up in the hands and on the shoulders of these people — materially and morally — largely depends on us.