Eva Rapoport, a cultural anthropologist and photographer; in the past – Russian-language writer, journalist, philosophy lecturer. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Eva was working on a PhD dissertation about spirit possession beliefs and practices in Javanese culture. Currently, she is a coordinator of the Istanbul branch of the Ark (Kovcheg) – an organization helping Russian political emigrants. Starting March 2022, Eva began conducting research on what she has labeled as the Shock Wave of Russian Emigration – referring to those people who left Russia during the first weeks of the war, in a state of psychological distress and without time for thoughtful preparation. Later on, some of the personal narratives derived from the interviews collected for the research have also led to a digital art project /Imagine Unimaginable employing an AI to visualize the reflections of the shock and trauma of witnessing the world being turned upside down overnight.