Platform for photography from Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Perhaps the most adventurous and precarious source of materials is the grey market, including antique fairs and online auctions. After…
Oleksandr Glyadelov prefers not to call himself a war photographer, although he has repeatedly photographed in war zones, and I…
In a series titled ‘Faces of War’ (2022-23), you might expect to see the hardened stares of battle-ready soldiers in…
Daria Svertilova’s series Temporary Homes began in 2019 and is an ongoing, long-term documentary project. The work explores the independence…
If we believe the German poet and philosopher Novalis, who called philosophy "homesickness," then at the moment of the threat…
The title of the series, Eternal Return, demands that we question this conventional view of photographic time. It suggests that…
Mid-1980s. The Soviet empire is still standing, but its foundations have already begun to crack – almost imperceptibly, yet irreversibly.…
War means disruption. The forced displacement of people. In this series Igor Chekachkov documents the daily lives of people who…
In his series To Know Us Better, Shebetko portrays Queer Ukrainians who are living or temporarily staying in Europe. Their…
What does it mean to photograph war? What does it mean to view war photographs? These questions have long troubled…
In Humilevsky’s Giant, the large form prevails. The figures seem to be sculptural, pointedly voluminous. Their relief is, as it…
Can photography be seen as a privileged tool of historiosophical reflection? “One period is collapsing, and the other is beginning.…
Contributing to the end of Soviet rule and Ukrainian independence, the miners’ strikes starting in the late eighties became a…
