"Our Solemn Promise" is a project that explores family histories, collective memory, and intergenerational trauma. The title of this series takes its name from the Vladimir Lenin All Union Pioneer Camps, a mass youth organization in the USSR for kids ages 10- 15 that started in 1922 and ended in 1991. Millions of children, including all members of my family were indoctrinated into the Soviet ideology through the "Solemn Promise" to love and cherish their motherland and live according to the teachings of the Communist Party. In this series, I use various non-silver photographic methods to deliberately manipulate , layer and fragment my family's personal archive and photographs I took since immigrating to the States. The project is a placeholder for processing my family's experiences of growing up in the Soviet Union and to reflect on ways political and social ideologies were deeply ingrained in everyday life.