The edition with photos of leading photographers documenting Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine was presented by the Ukrainian House in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. The book is based on pictures that were exhibited in October 2022 in the exhibition project “FLASH”. The goal is to preserve and disseminate the evidence of the events of the war through the author's optics of leading Ukrainian photographers.
The exposition included 500 works of Ukrainian photographers, among which, in particular, participants of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers: Mstislav Chernov (founder of UAFF), Taras Bychko, Alexey Furman, Pavel Dorogoy, Sergey Melnychenko, Igor Chekachkov, Yevgeny Zavgeny Yurko Diachishin, Yurko Diachishin, Yana Kononova, Sasha Maslov, Mykhailo Palinchak, Olena Grom, Sergey Mikhalchuk and Serhiy Korovainy.
“Forming the dramaturgy of the album, we sought to present the fullness of the author's statements, to show a wide range of emotions — not only through war photography, but also through modern Ukrainian in general: street, studio, landscape, portrait, chamber scenes, nudes,” says the curator of the project Alice Grishanova.
In terms of idea and content, the album “Flash” conveys the reality and multilayedness in which Ukrainians live and fight for victory.
Irpin, Bucha, Saltovka in Kharkiv, mass burial in Izyum, Kakhovsk hydroelectric power plant, counter-offensive of the Armed Forces in the South — these and other footage of key events of the war are presented in the publication. The reference point for the selection of photos was the date of February 24, 2022.
Alina Hrishanova emphasizes that war photography and wartime photography are not identical phenomena: “But taken together they form a general picture of the tragedy, reflect the theater of hostilities, the heroics of resistance, the history of people, their psychological state, death and life, pain and hope.”
“Photos that instantly spread across social networks around the world played an extremely important role in the perception of the war,” says Olga Vieru, director of the Ukrainian House. “Their influence is difficult to overestimate, because it was they who discovered the truth and shaped the attitude to certain events. Emotional response to truthful photos helped resolve the issue of comprehensive support for Ukraine in the civilizational battle at the world's leading diplomatic and political platforms.”
Most of the bill will be transferred to public institutions as well as project partners in order to communicate this evidence to a wide audience inside and outside the country. The album was published by Ukrainian House with the support of Ukrgasbank. Typography — “From A to Z”.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Marusia Maruzhenko
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
The edition with photos of leading photographers documenting Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine was presented by the Ukrainian House in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. The book is based on pictures that were exhibited in October 2022 in the exhibition project “FLASH”. The goal is to preserve and disseminate the evidence of the events of the war through the author's optics of leading Ukrainian photographers.
The exposition included 500 works of Ukrainian photographers, among which, in particular, participants of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers: Mstislav Chernov (founder of UAFF), Taras Bychko, Alexey Furman, Pavel Dorogoy, Sergey Melnychenko, Igor Chekachkov, Yevgeny Zavgeny Yurko Diachishin, Yurko Diachishin, Yana Kononova, Sasha Maslov, Mykhailo Palinchak, Olena Grom, Sergey Mikhalchuk and Serhiy Korovainy.
“Forming the dramaturgy of the album, we sought to present the fullness of the author's statements, to show a wide range of emotions — not only through war photography, but also through modern Ukrainian in general: street, studio, landscape, portrait, chamber scenes, nudes,” says the curator of the project Alice Grishanova.
In terms of idea and content, the album “Flash” conveys the reality and multilayedness in which Ukrainians live and fight for victory.
Irpin, Bucha, Saltovka in Kharkiv, mass burial in Izyum, Kakhovsk hydroelectric power plant, counter-offensive of the Armed Forces in the South — these and other footage of key events of the war are presented in the publication. The reference point for the selection of photos was the date of February 24, 2022.
Alina Hrishanova emphasizes that war photography and wartime photography are not identical phenomena: “But taken together they form a general picture of the tragedy, reflect the theater of hostilities, the heroics of resistance, the history of people, their psychological state, death and life, pain and hope.”
“Photos that instantly spread across social networks around the world played an extremely important role in the perception of the war,” says Olga Vieru, director of the Ukrainian House. “Their influence is difficult to overestimate, because it was they who discovered the truth and shaped the attitude to certain events. Emotional response to truthful photos helped resolve the issue of comprehensive support for Ukraine in the civilizational battle at the world's leading diplomatic and political platforms.”
Most of the bill will be transferred to public institutions as well as project partners in order to communicate this evidence to a wide audience inside and outside the country. The album was published by Ukrainian House with the support of Ukrgasbank. Typography — “From A to Z”.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Marusia Maruzhenko
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
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