Draws civilians who lost their lives to the war in Ukraine every day since February 25. New portraits, with short accounts of how the person lived and died, are posted on his instagram and telegram channels @oldoldanimal daily with the hashtag #следуетпомнитьтерминcollateraldamage — a misquote that Melamed decided to keep, from Russian foreign minister Lavrov, who, when asked if he still sleep soundly at night knowing that Russian bombs and bullets are killing children, he offered his condolences, adding that Russian troops have strict orders to only use high-precision weapons and that «it wasn’t us who invented the expression ‘collateral damage». His book «Machinery of portrait», published in 2019, deals with both the technical and the ethical aspects of portraiture.
