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What does it mean to photograph war? What does it mean to view war photographs? These questions have long troubled theorists but, Ukrainian and based in Kyiv, Sasha Kurmaz is...

Mid-1980s. The Soviet empire is still standing, but its foundations have already begun to crack – almost imperceptibly, yet irreversibly. A new word appears in the air: Perebudova (Ukrainian for...

Perhaps the most adventurous and precarious source of materials is the grey market, including antique fairs and online auctions. After socialist state institutions transitioned into the capitalist economy, much of...

In a series titled ‘Faces of War’ (2022-23), you might expect to see the hardened stares of battle-ready soldiers in front of the camera, but here are the faces of...

War means disruption. The forced displacement of people. In this series Igor Chekachkov documents the daily lives of people who have been forced to leave their homes due to the...

Daria Svertilova’s series Temporary Homes began in 2019 and is an ongoing, long-term documentary project. The work explores the independence of younger generations of Ukrainians in their living environments, something...

If we believe the German poet and philosopher Novalis, who called philosophy "homesickness," then at the moment of the threat of losing one’s own home, the deep foundations of one’s...

Contributing to the end of Soviet rule and Ukrainian independence, the miners’ strikes starting in the late eighties became a fundamental part of Ukrainian history, even if this was not...

The title of the series, Eternal Return, demands that we question this conventional view of photographic time. It suggests that the images represent a moment which is not only in...

In his series To Know Us Better, Shebetko portrays Queer Ukrainians who are living or temporarily staying in Europe. Their experience and hopes for a better future are documented in...

In Humilevsky’s Giant, the large form prevails. The figures seem to be sculptural, pointedly voluminous. Their relief is, as it were, embedded in the 2D picture. In the series, which...

Can photography be seen as a privileged tool of historiosophical reflection? “One period is collapsing, and the other is beginning. (…) When one thing and the opposite existed at the...

Oleksandr Glyadelov prefers not to call himself a war photographer, although he has repeatedly photographed in war zones, and I think I understand why – it would be better if...