Anastasia, 26, meets us on the terrace of a restaurant in kyiv (Ukraine), first to explain the concept to us. “The more you give, the more photos you haveshe explains. And proof of donation is a minimum photo.
Everything happens on the website teronlyfans, referring to the word “ter” of territorial defense. The rules are simple: to get a photo, all you have to do is provide proof of a donation to an association that helps the Ukrainian army or volunteers. Since the launch of the site last March, more than 854,000 euros have been collected. “We are rather proudrecognizes Anastasia, we do it honestly and if it can be useful for our country, why not? We have a joke between us that sums up well what we do: We help our country with troops of breasts and buttocks!
Anastasia launched this movement with Nasta, her Belarusian friend who took refuge in Poland, on March 8. The latter had to find a car to evacuate a person from Kharkiv. With no response, she said on social media that she was going to post a nude photo of herself, and so the project began as the responses were immediate.
To avoid any problem, they never receive any money personally. This activity is completely voluntary. They are now 40 to lay bare. A large majority of women but some men too, like Konstantin
“It’s really important for us to know that we are useful to our country and in addition, if in passing we can change a few clichés”he confides.
“It’s not provocation, it’s really an artistic project for us with a simple message that we want to send: beauty can save the world!”
Beauty, for them, is also the unity of their country in this war which is never far away. Even when we talk about nudity on the terrace of a restaurant in kyiv where the sirens of air alerts sound almost daily.
What these Ukrainians who define themselves as “artivists” – a mixture of activists and artists – are doing is a way of drawing the attention of the whole world to the situation in their country. “We cannot say that we are doing anything, that all means are good to help our country and the army, noassure Anastasia. There are still moral limits to our project, but this is our way of personally thanking everyone who helps Ukraine.”
The soldiers, the volunteers give it back to them. Since the beginning of the conflict Anastasia and the others have received hundreds of messages of encouragement, “so we think that maybe with only one pair of buttocks, we can fight the Russians!”
Photos of artistic nudes to help the Ukrainian army – Report by Valentin Dunate and Fabien Gosset