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SOFIA YABLONSKA WAS A WRITER, JOURNALIST, CINEMATOGRAPHER, PHOTOGRAPHER, AND THE FIRST UKRAINIAN WOMEN TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND WRITE ABOUT HER JOURNEY.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\n Sofia Yablonska (1907-1971) was a writer, journalist, cinematographer, photographer, and the first Ukrainian woman to travel around the world and write about her journey. Sharing the modernist aspirations of her time for the new and unknown, inspired by the idea of movement as personal development, and simultaneously remaining true to the promise she made to herself in the turbulent 1920s to live so that no one could ever take her home away again, she chose travel as her way of life. Her status as member of a then stateless nation made her especially sensitive to national and social inequality among the communities she described. <\/div>\n
\n Unlike her contemporaries, she spoke with the voice of the \u201csecond sex\u201d from the \u201csecond world\u201d and her literary and documentary works, The Charm of Morocco (1932), From the Land of Rice and Opium (1936), and Distant Horizons (1939), still speak uniquely, not only about the quirks of non-European cultures, but also about the diversity and polyphony of Europe itself, not limited to its center.\n

\nBy coming up against other cultures, Yablonska approached the very limits of language, approached what can be experienced, but not described. It is no coincidence that her texts were accompanied by dozens of her photographs, which she risked her life for more than once. She was helped in this by her own atypical position\u2014her awareness of herself as a European and representative of Western culture associated with a position of strength and power, and at the same time, as a Ukrainian, a representative of a subjugated and oppressed people.\n

\nShe managed to go beyond the \u201coriental trap,\u201d egocentrism, and ethnocentrism. People from different cultures and social groups will appear in her photographs and film chronic made during her travels. They will be depicted feeding a child or cooking, during street trading or forest bathing, in everyday life or during a holiday. Mostly they will look directly into the lens of the movie camera, with interest or approval. <\/div>\n