Opens new horizons and plans to go to a new level. The most popular group in the Ukrainian photo community on Facebook “Ukrainian street photography” has changed its name to “Ukrainian documentary photography”. Now the scope of the visual repertoire in the group will become even wider, but the publication rules will remain in force. The administrators of the online community call these changes “natural”.
Vladimir Petrov, one of the three founders of the group, says that street photography in times of war becomes more serious because it captures history.
“The war has been going on in our country for almost 10 years. And after a full-scale invasion, many “put life on pause”, put the camera on a shelf. Someone went into the army to defend the homeland and their relatives. Someone became a volunteer. Someone was forced to become a migrant. Everyone is working to support the military. This new reality has given rise to many young photographers and has caused changes in experienced authors. The subject of filming has changed along with them,” the group said in an official statement on Facebook.
Recall that in 2017 the community “Ukrainian Street Photography” was founded, in addition to Vladimir Petrov, by two other photographers — Mykhailo Palinchak and Taras Bychko. The goal of the group is to organize a platform for communication of like-minded people with common interests. Since then, 18.7 thousand participants have subscribed to it and it has become the largest community of street photographers in Ukraine.
Since the founding of the group, many authors have been able to be heard and develop creatively. “The group was created because there was nothing like it in the Ukrainian space at that time,” recalls Volodymyr Petrov. “It became a phenomenon, because for the first time we embodied the principle of limited opportunity for publication. The administrators of the group had a fairly high level of visual experience and all photos were passed through the mechanism of premoderation. This created excitement among novice photographers. Individual authors have grown up because of this.”
The co-founders of the group hope that with the change of concept, the ranks of photographers will be replenished with new faces. “Keeping up with the times and the extraordinary challenges of our present — we will look forward to the photos of authors who are forming and hardening in these important days,” said Volodymyr Petrov. He and the group's co-founders are working on new ideas to grow the online community, including its supporters and authors.
Group administrators invite authors to publish documentaries, series and projects. They hope that there will be more content and promise to maintain the appropriate level of visual quality.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
Opens new horizons and plans to go to a new level. The most popular group in the Ukrainian photo community on Facebook “Ukrainian street photography” has changed its name to “Ukrainian documentary photography”. Now the scope of the visual repertoire in the group will become even wider, but the publication rules will remain in force. The administrators of the online community call these changes “natural”.
Vladimir Petrov, one of the three founders of the group, says that street photography in times of war becomes more serious because it captures history.
“The war has been going on in our country for almost 10 years. And after a full-scale invasion, many “put life on pause”, put the camera on a shelf. Someone went into the army to defend the homeland and their relatives. Someone became a volunteer. Someone was forced to become a migrant. Everyone is working to support the military. This new reality has given rise to many young photographers and has caused changes in experienced authors. The subject of filming has changed along with them,” the group said in an official statement on Facebook.
Recall that in 2017 the community “Ukrainian Street Photography” was founded, in addition to Vladimir Petrov, by two other photographers — Mykhailo Palinchak and Taras Bychko. The goal of the group is to organize a platform for communication of like-minded people with common interests. Since then, 18.7 thousand participants have subscribed to it and it has become the largest community of street photographers in Ukraine.
Since the founding of the group, many authors have been able to be heard and develop creatively. “The group was created because there was nothing like it in the Ukrainian space at that time,” recalls Volodymyr Petrov. “It became a phenomenon, because for the first time we embodied the principle of limited opportunity for publication. The administrators of the group had a fairly high level of visual experience and all photos were passed through the mechanism of premoderation. This created excitement among novice photographers. Individual authors have grown up because of this.”
The co-founders of the group hope that with the change of concept, the ranks of photographers will be replenished with new faces. “Keeping up with the times and the extraordinary challenges of our present — we will look forward to the photos of authors who are forming and hardening in these important days,” said Volodymyr Petrov. He and the group's co-founders are working on new ideas to grow the online community, including its supporters and authors.
Group administrators invite authors to publish documentaries, series and projects. They hope that there will be more content and promise to maintain the appropriate level of visual quality.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
UAPP is an independent association of professional Ukrainian photographers, designed to protect their interests, support, develop and promote Ukrainian photography as an important element of national culture.
UAPP's activities span educational, social, research and cultural initiatives, as well as book publishing.
UAPP represents Ukrainian professional photography in the international photographic community and is an official member of the Federation of European Photographers (FEP) — an international organization representing more than 50,000 professional photographers in Europe and other countries around the world.
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