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“No photo is worth a life": war through the lens of Oleh Petrasyuk
Oleg Petrasyuk is a photographer, serviceman of the 24th Brigade named after King Danylo and a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAFF). In this interview, he shares his experiences documenting war, talks about the difficult moral challenges of filming, and explains why photography for him is primarily a craft, not an art.
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What photos by Ukrainian photographers were included in the photo collections of the year by CNN, Reuters, TIME, The New York Times
Photography has become one of the key ways to capture the pain, resilience and struggle of Ukrainians in 2024. This year, global media giants CNN, Reuters and TIME have included the work of Ukrainian documentarians in their annual best-picture selections. This is a recognition not only of the talent of the authors, but also of the power of visual art, which tells the history of war, life and hope of Ukraine.
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10 photos of November
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, together with Ukraїner, continues to publish a selection of important events captured by Ukrainian photographers in November 2024. This month, Ukrainian photographers took their cameras to the front lines in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, filmed farewells to fallen soldiers, shelling of cities by the enemy army, and much more.
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A photo with a story: enveloped in landscapes of dying
Some time in our lives, even if it happened during the war, will still retain the feeling that the landscape is about the peace and beauty of existence.
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Drones are flying over the city, and Russians are 2.5 kilometers away. Kupiansk in the lens of Ivan Samoilov
Kupiansk, once known as an important trade hub, has today become a symbol of resistance and destruction. Historically, the city was closely linked to trade, a connection reflected even in its name—according to one version, it comes from the word "kupyets" (merchant). Another version links the name to "kupy" (peat bogs), which once covered the area.
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Stanislav Ostrous: “War is not only death, but also a kind of life”
Ukrainian photographer Stanislav Ostrous shared his experiences of the first days of the full-scale war in Kharkiv, the stories of people he encountered in areas liberated from Russian forces, and the places that truly embodied the soul of Kherson.
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“To give a voice to those who could not speak out during their lifetime.” Lesia Marushchak about the world's most famous exhibition about the Holodomor
Project MARIA by Canadian artist of Ukrainian descent Lesia Maruschak became the most famous exhibition about the Holodomor of 1932-1933, according to the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Kyiv. This artwork has traveled to nine countries, and the book based on the project has won international awards. The exhibition provides an opportunity to look at the memory of the Holodomor through art, which makes a complex topic accessible and understandable on many levels.
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“They were brought to Odesa to beat everyone who does not support Yanukovych”. Euromaidan and Anti-Maidan in the lens of Alexander Gimanov
On the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, the UAPF recalls how Odesa became part of the struggle for Ukraine's independence. The city, which is often called the pearl by the sea, was then on the verge of a transition between a European pro-Ukrainian future and a Russian past. In this article, we describe how Odessans fought for their freedom, and supplement the text with photographs by documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Himanov, who witnessed these events.
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Shots of changes that society is ready for. The Revolution of Dignity through the eyes of Mstyslav Chernov
On November 21, Ukraine marks the Day of Dignity and Freedom, commemorating the anniversaries of two significant events - the Orange Revolution of 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014. These events have become symbols of Ukrainians' aspirations for democracy, freedom and European values. Today, during the full-scale war with Russia, the struggle for these ideals continues.
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A photo with a story: Who has not seen our cracks
We can document the moment and document the consequences, and not just the next day, but everything that happens afterwards, everything that the moment we documented spills over and turns into.
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Penetration of bugs into your personal space and how to learn to coexist with it. New UAPF member Olga Koval about her projects and plans
Olha Koval is a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers who attracts the attention of the art community with her original approach to contemporary issues. Her project “Eruption” took second place in the competition of the Mykolaiv School of Photography “MYPH” and resonated with the audience and critics. She created more than 40 thousand red-winged beetles, sculpting and painting them by hand.
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10 photos of October
In October 2024, Ukrainian photographers filmed the hostilities mainly in the Donetsk region, where the Russian army concentrated all its power and had significant successes, and documented the shelling of the largest Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and others.
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A photo with a story: The reign of detail
Yesterday and today, just as in the last century, photographs show us a part of suffering that we should understand and perhaps try on ourselves, which is not evil. It is commonplace to show suffering, it still works, it attracts attention. After all, a devout Christian says that we get something better for our suffering when we die.
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Light and Shadows by Bohdan Huliai. A new UAPP participant talks about memory, art, and new projects
Bogdan Huliai has become a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. His work goes beyond traditional reportage photography - Bohdan explores deep themes of memory, existence, and personal stories, which he skillfully conveys mostly in film photographs. Some of Huliai's projects require a long time for deeper reflection, and sometimes even re-reading the Bible to find a new perspective on classic stories.
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A photo with a story: The appeal of the image is the confusion of reality
This image, taken out of context, stops me and makes me interested, but reality erases all the aesthetic dimensions of the composition. It is difficult to talk about such pictures - I like them or I don't like them. Of course, I like the composition, the hunched bodies in a limited space touching each other, the flow of colors and the way the eye slides from one man's back to another, but I don't like the situation, the disgusting bodies and men's backs, their hands and, above all, their faces..
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A Research That Became a Challenge: Olga Kovaleva and Vladislav Krasnoshchek on Filming in a Russian POW Camp
Photographers Olga Kovaleva and Vladislav Krasnoshchek, who actively document the Russia-Ukraine war, visited a Russian POW camp. They intended to create a photo report, but working among prisoners of war turned out to be challenging. For Vladislav and Olga, who came under enemy artillery fire in Donetsk in the summer of 2024, filming in the camp became not only a professional challenge but also an emotional one.
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Some of the first volunteers. Training, farewells, and the war of the "Azov" fighters in the photographs of Vyacheslav Ratynskyi and Anatolii Stepanov.
The "Azov" Battalion was created on May 5, 2014, in the city of Berdiansk as a special police patrol battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs based on a decision by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The battalion emerged from the Ukrainian partisan group "Chornyi Korpus," which voluntarily participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, particularly in Kharkiv and the Sea of Azov region in 2014.
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10 photos of september
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications of important photos from the past month relating to key events in Ukraine.
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A photo with a story: Hello, brother
In such photos, any search for metaphors seems to be an exaggeration for its own sake. Reality is more terrifying than fiction and interpretation.
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“In many houses, the lights are no longer turned on - entire families died there.” The tragedy in the village of Hroza in the photos of Yakiv Lyashenko
On October 5, 2023, the Russian military struck a cafe in the village of Hroza in the Kharkiv region with an Iskander missile. The café was hosting a memorial dinner, which was attended by many villagers. The strike killed 59 people, including an eight-year-old child.
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The case of August 31. Explosions near the Verkhovna Rada in the photos of Viacheslav Ratynskyi
On August 31, 2015, police and activists who opposed the adoption of constitutional amendments on decentralization of power clashed near the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. More than a hundred people were injured, and four members of the National Guard were killed.
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“I was appointed a press officer, even though I didn't want to be”. Yevhen Borysovskyi about photography at the front, censorship and the work of a press officer
Yevhen Borysovskyi, a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, embodies two roles: serviceman and photographer. Appointed as the head of the communications department of the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade in Zhytomyr, he never planned to pursue a career in either the military or photography, but life and war had other plans.
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A photo with a story: Then the town is conquered by dogs, and each subsequent one looks into it like water
A reasonable fear of obvious metaphors always tries to stop the author, but how hard is it to avoid them when it comes to a town called Chasiv Yar. How to avoid the metaphor of a town devastated by war, which now belongs to dogs and memories to some extent, to the few remaining people with weapons (because they need to somehow fight off those dogs), and most importantly to the military, who need to defend the town from the Russians, no matter what ravine or abyss of numbed time and memory...
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“Other Days of Life": a series of photographs by Oleksandr Rupeta about people who refuse to be conquered
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta won the Xposure Photography Award 2024 for Best Independent Freelance Photojournalist with his series "Other Days of Life." For over a year, he captured life across different regions of Ukraine, offering a personal perspective on the war.
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War Nouveau: A series by Yurko Dyachyshyn exploring the new landscapes of war.
Lviv photographer Yurko Dyachyshyn has been documenting life during the war since the first hours of the full-scale Russian invasion. He specifically captures how the familiar landscapes of his hometown, Lviv, are changing under the aggressive impact of war. Yurko Dyachyshyn shared his thoughts on working on the War Nouveau project, the limits of aesthetics during wartime, and why he doesn't believe that a single photograph can stop a war, though he hopes he is wrong.
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Not My Home: Life in a Modular Town Captured in Photographs by Danilo Pavlov.
У січні 2015 року на околиці міста Харків, недалеко від аеропорту, збудували модульне містечко для переселенців зі сходу України та Криму. Планувалось, що невеликі житлові контейнери стануть тимчасовим прихистком для внутрішньо переміщених родин. Утім, дуже скоро, огороджене парканом поселення перетворилось на гетто і стало проблемою для муніципальної влади.
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ATO is over. The beginning of the Joint Forces Operation in the photographs of Danylo Pavlov.
On April 30, 2018, the large-scale anti-terrorist operation in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine was completed. The ATO was restructured into the Joint Forces Operation. General Serhiy Nayev became the commander of the operation.
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Vladislav Krasnoshchek: “I once noticed a tattoo on someone’s body — the face of Christ. It turns out, Jesus is dead.”
Photographer and artist Vladislav Krasnoshchek, a representative of the new wave of the Kharkiv School of Photography, continues to document the Russian-Ukrainian war. At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he captured the situation in his native Kharkiv and traveled with volunteers to the front line.
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The Story Behind the Photo: Knowledge Day on Order and Safety
September 1st is Knowledge Day. For example, knowledge about how the Geneva Convention guarantees the unconditional protection of medical personnel.
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Maksym Dondiuk on the tragedy in Ilovaisk: "The most important photographs for me are of the guys who lost their lives."
In August 2014, one of the fiercest battles for Ukrainian forces unfolded near the town of Ilovaisk during the war in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian command decided to storm the city, which was occupied by pro-Russian militants and located 43 kilometers from Donetsk. However, the operation turned into a tragedy. The fighting lasted nearly a month, with about 400 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the "Ilovaisk pocket," another 400 wounded, and approximately 300 captured.
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A photo with a story: There is something of ordinary women in these unidentified Kasandras.
These women in yellow scarves, sitting on benches near their homes by the road, are not so much unheard Cassandras as they are unrecognized.
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Unicorn battalion
LGBTQ+ Soldiers of Ukraine Fight for Their Country and Their Rights Amid the Chaos of War
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Photo with a story by Vira Kuriko: This is love — and not a word more.
Ten years of war, about a hundred trains connect the country from city to town, heading towards the front line wherever it's still possible, and sometimes it's hard to get a ticket for the "Kyiv-War" train.
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10 Photos of July: A Collection of Important Photos of the Month by UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring important photographs from the past month, highlighting key events in Ukraine.
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Lviv photographer Marta Syryko about the Sculpture Project, The Bachelor, inclusivity, the body, and trauma
Lviv-based photographer Marta Syryko has created a series of photographs of Ukrainian veterans who lost their limbs in the war. The author dedicated her project “Sculptural” to art based on ancient Greek statues. Today, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is publishing a conversation with the author and her photographs.
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“My photography cannot be about the war”. New UAPF member Daria Svertilova about her projects, reflections and photo dreams
We talk about the project Temporary Home (or Dormitory), jet photography during the war, photography education in France, and the dream photo with a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, Daria Svertilova from Odesa.
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Photo with story by Vira Kuriko: It seems to be about whiteness and painfulness
It's not even about the color (only whether white is so white), but whether it's decent to walk around so clean at noon on July 8, when the Russians had just shelled the Okhmatdyt children's hospital and the area near the Lukyanivska metro station in Kyiv. And we're talking about just a few missiles out of thirty-eight that flew at different Ukrainian cities.
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10 photos of June: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues to share key photos of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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Where there is a bare pier and Oleshky sands. Photo with the story through the eyes of Elena Guseinova
I remembered this photo of Ivan Antipenko in the first week of June. Blooming lilac and a fighter with a smoke block. Antipenko took this photo back in April. In the Kherson region. In the south, lilac blooms faster. Strawberries and cherries ripen faster. Russian air bombs arrive faster. And many more things in the south are happening faster. But I don't know how to use the word “faster” when describing the path to the Hola Marina or the Oleshkov Sands.
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10 photos of May: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues to share key photos of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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“I try to find a goal in every flight.” Photo with the story through the eyes of Olena Huseinova
Photography captures what the eye can see. Captures what is happening. The way it is here and now. With detail and clarity available here and now.
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10 photos of April: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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10 photos of March: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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10 photos of February: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraіner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, is launching a series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion. Some capture specific historical events, while others show ordinary moments skillfully transformed into symbols by the photographer. All of them are part of the new history we are creating together.
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Time to live and time to fight. Ukrainian youth fighting for their future in Vyacheslav Ratynskyi's photo project
As part of the UAPP grant support for documentary photographers, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute, we continue to share documentary projects of photographers. This time we present the project “Time to live and time to fight” by Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Vyacheslav Ratynsky.
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PEACE AND TRANQUILITY. A documentary project by Heorhiy Ivanchenko
Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and member of the Association from the first months of the invasion began filming for Associated Press and European Pressphoto Agency. Starting from Borodyanshchyna, where Georgy was born, continuing his journey through the front line: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, now his attention was concentrated on Donetsk region. The turning point in his photography was that he lived in Bakhmut for almost a month.
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Near Bakhmut, from winter to winter. The story of twenty-year-old veterans through the eyes of Oleksandr Babenko
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute.
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“Even the silence here reminds us of the shelling”. A visual essay by Ihor Ishchuk about the city of Kherson and its people
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute. Igor Ishchuk explores the topic of social inequality, parallel communities and the consequences of urbanization of urban neighborhoods. He is currently covering the war in Ukraine.
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"Generation". A documentary project by Olena Grom
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute.
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Beyond the spoil tip: Kostiantyn Guzenko documents children from frontline regions
Within the framework of the grant for documentary photographers, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute, we continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists. Konstiantyn Guzenko spent a month with volunteer organizations that have taken on the responsibility of supporting the children who have remained in certain settlements of Kupiansk district and Donetsk region, which are closest to the contact line.
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The second winter in war. A documentary project by Serhiy Korovainyi
Documentary photographer Serhiy Korovainyi visits the de-occupied villages and towns in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, recording how people survived the occupation and are gradually returning to life.
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Echoes of Donbass - A documentary project by Tymofii Melnykov
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of grant support from the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. Timofey Melnikov went to Donetsk region to work on the documentary project “Echoes of Donbass”.
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The sea is gone. A documentary project by Oleksandr Rupeta
The project “Photodocumentarians at the forefront: supporting Ukrainian photographers and their projects” is a microgrant program from the UAFF that helps support Ukrainian documentary photographers who risk their lives to tell the truth about the war in Ukraine. Today we begin to share a series of documentary works of 10 finalists, namely the project of Alexander Rupeta.
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Life after deportation and before the occupation. Crimean Tatars by Gennadiy Minchenko
On May 18, Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatars. 80 years ago at 3:00am on May 18, 1944, the Soviet authorities began the evacuation of all Crimean Tatars from their native peninsula. At that time, about 200,000 people were forcibly taken out in goods wagons. Almost half died on the road or in the first years after deportation.
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Ukrainian photographers of the twentieth century: who shot what
Photographic shops, photo studios and private photography courses. On the territory of modern Ukraine at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, photography became commonplace. Artists united in professional and amateur societies. Some people made millions from photographs and gained fame, and some went bankrupt and lost everything. Someone worked as a photojournalist for Soviet newspapers, and someone was a freelancer and travel blogger.
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Alone. Kateryna Moskaliuk's project about the wives of fallen soldiers
The photo project “Alone” is the stories of women from all over Ukraine, whose husbands died during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Starokostyantyniv or small towns and villages — the pain has no definite location. Photographer Ekaterina Moskalyuk took portraits of the wives of dead servicemen, things that they keep in memory of their husbands, and also photographed friends and close women who help them search for new meanings in life.
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The Chornobyl explosion and nuclear terror during the Russian occupation.The suffering of Chornobyl in the pictures of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
April 26, 2024 marks 38 years since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. However, since 2022 — this day they remember another tragedy that Chernobyl had to experience — the invasion of Russian troops.
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“I don't know when you'll get this message,” my friend writes to me. “You're always on time,” I reply. Photo with the story through the eyes of Olena Huseynova
I saw her smile. And she saw that I saw her, too. And that I smile too. We talked about why we learned to pause before saying something that could scare. And about why we talk so much and there are so few stories left. We talked for a long time. She moved around the apartment. I turned on the lights in the kitchen. I turned off the light in the kitchen. And lit it in the living room. And then her phone ran out.
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“One life is enough for a drone: Olena Huseynova and photo of the week
Vyacheslav Ratinsky took this photo back in winter, in February. One of the Ukrainian charitable foundations transfers FPV drones to the military, on which people from all over Ukraine have been pouring money for several months. Two thousand FPV drones laid out in long thin black and white lines on the floor of a large pavilion. Between these lines, the Ukrainian military holds one of the drones in his hands like a toy.
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The small one is protected by the big one. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
Iva Sidash took this photo on 24 February 2024 in Washington, DC, at the Lincoln Memorial, during a rally marking the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion. The boy is sitting on the steps of the monument. A large Ukrainian flag is waving above him. He is holding a small Ukrainian flag. The small one is protected by the big one.
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How much time and effort will it take for everyone to return? Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On 20 February, 11 Ukrainian children abducted by Russians were returned to Ukraine. The crossing took place in the evening on the border between Ukraine and Belarus, in the Volyn region. Roman Pylypei's photo was taken during this return. It shows no signs of a disaster. The night, a car, the lights on, a woman and a child in the back seat. Everything resembles a nativity scene. A portable two-stage baroque wooden puppet theatre with the appearance of "great joy" in the world being performed.
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Words pale before hatred, personal and all-encompassing. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On the evening of 9 February, Russian attack drones from the Belgorod region targeted Kharkiv. Several of them hit the tanks of an oil depot in the Nemyshlyansky district. Fuel leaked out, mixed with snow, and spread across the street, causing a huge fire. Rescuers fought the fire and searched for victims throughout the night and into the next day.
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Pain is universal, evil is real. Olena Huseynova analyzes the photo of the week
I met her in December on the train Przemysl — Kyiv. There was free space in my compartment, and the conductor dropped it off at me. She apologized - the train from Prague was late, the train to Kiev, for which she had a ticket, did not wait. I seemed to sympathize. And maybe not. I remember little of what was before her phrase: “My husband is in captivity.” But everything that happened after that phrase, I remember very well.
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A holiday displayed by an explosive wave. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
This photo by Pavlo Dorohoi has been reposted by everyone. Or so it seemed to me. I saw it on the Facebook page of a military journalist I know, on the Facebook page of an unknown eyebrow artist from Myrhorod Even an IT specialist from Kyiv who managed to flee to Berlin in the spring of 2022 left this photo in his stories for 24 hours. The blue haze of cold Kharkiv. A bare tree with things hanging from its branches, thrown out from neighboring houses by a Russian missile blast.
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Winter is on the front line. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
Konstantin Liberov's photo was taken in the Serebryansky Forest. "Winter at the Front" is the plain title of the picture and the whole set.
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"Our endurance must be long". Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On 11 January, Kyiv said goodbye to Maksym "Dali" Kryvtsov. He was a volunteer, a soldier, a junior sergeant, and a tutor at the Motley Raccoons children's camp. He was also a poet. In December 2023, at the very beginning of a brilliant literary career, Maksym Kryvtsov published his first book of poetry. We will never know what his poetic voice would have become, how it would have changed and matured.
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"Feel that angle inside you." Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
We see photos every day and everywhere. But what kind of images surround us? What are they for? What ideas do they imply? Today, we are announcing a new column - photo of the week analysis with Ukrainian radio presenter and writer Olena Huseynova, in which we will interpret what the photos taken by Ukrainian photographers are saying or trying to say to us. Let's start with a photo by Oleh Palchyk, taken at the Kherson railway station on December 27.
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Photo book How we walk through the fire
Two years of full-scale war in a photo book by Reporters. 190 documentary shots taken between February 2022 and February 2024. Among the authors of the photos are Danylo Pavlov, Yevhen Malolietka, Serhiy Korovainyi, Viacheslav Ratynskyi and almost 40 other photographers.
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"SMS from Mariupol"
The Ukrainian Atelier of Culture and Sports, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) and the Innovation Fund in Arts of the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, presented a series of exhibition projects that served as a photo diary from occupied Mariupol. These projects were exhibited in Stuttgart and Dresden, Germany.
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The photobook "Independent. The Story of Modern Ukraine in the Photographs of the Best Documentarians."
The photobook, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Book Institute. It contains more than 140 unique documentary photographs from over 60 Ukrainian photographers, arranged chronologically from the proclamation of Ukraine's independence to the present day.
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"Those Who Are Alone."
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) partnered with Chekachkov Photo Academy to hold a competition for the best visual diary created during quarantine. The result was a group online exhibition titled "Those Who Are Alone," featuring the best photographs taken as part of the competition initiated by Chekachkov Photo Academy.
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The language of photography.
A social project implemented by the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) in educational and rehabilitation centers in Kharkiv and Kyiv for children with speech and hearing impairments.
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Virtual Gallery: Unbreakable. Chronicles of War in Ukraine
In this project, we explore the chronicles of war in Ukraine, witnessed by dozens of Ukrainian photographers. Their photographs have helped create a unique artistic space that will mark the beginning of a new era in Ukraine's history and present it to the world. The virtual gallery features both well-known images that have become part of global history and those that have yet to be published. Each photograph symbolizes the struggle, unity, and resilience of the Ukrainian people.
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Exhibition "This is order, SORRI"
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), in collaboration with Ukrainischer Verein Mainz e.V. and photographer David Yampolsky, realized a photo exhibition dedicated to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It was presented on May 14, 2022, at the Gutleut gallery in Mainz, Germany. The Kyiv Photography School and the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine also joined the organization of the exhibition.
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«The Bearing Witness: Documenting War Crimes in Mariupol, Ukraine»
The photo exhibition was created in cooperation with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), FRONTLINE PBS and the Associated Press. The exhibition featured the works of Ukrainian documentary photographers, UAPF members and Pulitzer Prize winners Mstislav Chernov and Yevhen Malolletka.
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Endless columns of the armed forces of ukraine are heading to kursk region. Documentarian Vyacheslav Ratinsky talks about events on the Russian-Ukrainian border
In early August 2024, columns of Ukrainian military equipment crossed the border with the Russian Federation in Sumy region. Reports of a breach of the border appeared on August 6, 2024 in the Kremlin media, which claimed that the Armed Forces entered the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region.
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Russian artillery hit a supermarket in Kostyantynivka. Tragedy in the photos of Serhiy Nuzhnenko and Roman Pylypiy
On August 9, around 11:05 the Russian army shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk region from barrel artillery. The Russians hit a local supermarket. The number of victims of the Russian air strike in Konstantinovka reached 14 people. 44 people were wounded. This was reported in the Attorney General's Office.
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Maxim Dondyuk: “I'm filming what the future of humanity will be like if we don't stop fighting”
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been filming the war since 2014. He visited the hottest spots, in particular the Ilovai boiler. At the beginning of the full-scale war, he documented the battles in the Kiev region, and his photos are published by the leading publications of the world. Maxim Dondyuk works on long-term author's projects, which are personal reflections on the war in Ukraine. Maxim talked about the creation of photos from the new “White series”.
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UAPP Microgrant and Mentorship Program to Support Ukrainian Photographers
From September 2024 to March 2025, and on an annual basis, we will conduct a comprehensive mentoring and microgrant program for young Ukrainian photographers, focusing on the development of quality photographic education in Ukraine, forming a professional community and promoting dialogue between authors of different generations.
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Opportunities for the community: three trainings on tactical medicine in Dnipro, Odessa and Kharkiv
In August, RSF organizes 3 HEFAT Refresher trainings in Dnipro, Odessa and Kharkiv. These trainings are intended for journalists, media workers and freelancers and aim to renew or deepen knowledge and practice in physical safety and first aid.
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Six times a day the Russians shelled Kharkiv. Consequences of the enemy attack on the photo of Eugene Gertner
The Russians dropped a guided air bomb on the central part of Kharkov. On July 24 at 16:47 Russian troops attacked Kharkiv for the sixth time. Two people were injured as a result of an attack on a private house in Kharkiv. Rescuers and medics are working at the scene. This was announced by the mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov.
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Hit in a dugout. Ukrainian photographer Olga Kovalyova was wounded in Donetsk region
Documenting the Russian-Ukrainian war, two Kharkiv photographers — Olga Kovalyova, project manager of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, and Vladislav Krasnoshchuk — came under enemy artillery fire on July 19, 2024, near the front line in the Toretsky area in the Donetsk region.
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Two “Iskanders” in the center of Chuhuiv. The consequences of Russian rocket fire in the lens of Yevgeny Gertner
In the morning of July 19, Russian forces hit two Iskander missiles on the central part of Chuguev, Kharkiv region. As a result of the enemy air attack, 9 people were injured. Among them is a teenager. This is reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Synegubov.
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Shield city or the next “fortress” of the Chasovyi Yar on the photos of Ukrainian documentarians
Chasiv Yar is a city that has been stormed and shelled for months by occupation forces. The invaders continue to intensively burn Chasiv Yar, embodying scorched earth tactics. For more than two and a half years, Russian troops have been trying at any cost to capture the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, which became the front line after the capture of Bakhmut.
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The world of contemporary Ukrainian photo art in the new book MYPH and CREATIVE PUBLISHING
Creative Publishing House and Mykolaiv School of Conceptual and Art Photography MYPH have jointly prepared a photo book “Conceptual Photography”. The aim is to inform the domestic and international audience about contemporary conceptual photography in Ukraine, demonstrating the work of its brightest representatives. The authors of the book are Lucia Bondar, Creative Publishing, and Sergey Melnychenko, photographer, founder of the school of conceptual and art photography MYPH.
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“Stronger than bombs.” UAPP with German partners organizes photo exhibition in Dresden on destruction of cultural heritage of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work actively abroad on various international projects, representing and promoting authors from Ukraine.
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Mass death of people in Odesa. The confrontation between the participants of the “Euromaidan” and the pro-Russian “Anti-Maidan” in the photos of Oleg Kutsky
On May 2, 2014, in Odessa on Greek Square and Kulikovo Field, there were mass clashes between Euromaidan supporters and participants of the Maidan action and a fire broke out in the House of Trade Unions. At that time, 48 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.
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Military Departments or Children's Hospital: Ukrainian Photographers' Images in Russian Propaganda Materials
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it checks the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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“I need this flag because half my village is Orcs.” How Russian Propaganda Violates Copyright
Violating copyright, Russian media used a photo of Yulia Kochetova with a flag, illustrating the material “Dirt money, or how NATO will fight for black transplantation in Ukraine” and pointed to the author of the photo Russian drains.
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The battles for Karachun and Savur Mohyla, or Where the fighting for Donbas began. Hot summer 2014 in the lens of Oleksandr Klymenko
On April 13, 2014, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine began a large-scale anti-terrorist operation, which eventually turned into a war against the Russian army. The battles for Karachun and the battles for Savur-Mohyla went down in history as one of the bloodiest battles in Donbas at the beginning of the ATO.
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“Children were targeted on purpose.” Ruins of Kyiv's “Okhmatdyt” after Russian missiles in documentarists' photos
Wounded children, frightened adults, white medical robes covered in blood — these are the consequences of another Russian combined attack against Ukrainians. In the morning of July 8, Russian troops launched a rocket attack on Kiev, the largest children's hospital in Ukraine “Okhmatdyt” came under enemy attack.
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About 10 explosions in Dnipro: the consequences of the Russian combined attack in the lens of Nikolay Sinelnikov
On Wednesday morning, July 3, the Russians carried out a combined attack on the Dnieper. There were about 10 explosions in the city. At approximately 8:45 a.m., the Air Force of the Armed Forces reported the movement of enemy drones in the direction of the Dnieper. In a few minutes, missiles flew in the direction of the city.
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“Employees were unloading parcels.” The aftermath of the Russian air strike on “Nova Poshta” in Kharkiv in the photo of Yakov Lyashenko and Olga Kovalyova
On June 30, around 16:30 Russian troops again launched an air strike on Kharkov. The CAB flew about 80 kilometers and hit a few meters from the premises of “Nova Poshta” in the Slobidsky district of the city.
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“Hungry. Exhausted. Happy.” Photographers Konstantin and Vlada Liberov showed in what condition Ukrainians are returning from Russian captivity
On June 25, another 90 Ukrainians returned home from Russian captivity: 32 National Guardsmen, 18 border guards, 17 representatives of the Navy, 15 soldiers of the Armed Forces, 8 terrorists. Among them — 59 defenders of Mariupol, 52 of whom left Azovstal. Also, 5 fighters of the NGU, who at the beginning of the invasion guarded the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, set foot on their native land.
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Mykolaiv School of Photography MYPH: from conceptual to documentary images
MYPH, a well-known school of conceptual and art photography in the South of Ukraine, was founded by Serhiy Melnychenko in his hometown Mykolaiv. The training aims to promote and understand contemporary conceptual and artistic photography among artists.
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The camera as a weapon: the stories of photographers who joined the army
What made photographers join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? How has the photo changed, and they themselves, since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine? What did I have to give up and what to get used to? We talk with photographers Valentin Kuzan, Oleg Palchik and Sergey Mikhalchuk.
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What did the international press publish in June? A selection of photos by Ukrainian photographers
Photos of members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in the international press: June's selection. UAPF is proud of the Ukrainian documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war and major events in our country.
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The consequences of the missile strike on the Dnipro in the photo of Mykola Sinelnikov
A damaged high-rise building, one dead, injured people, among the victims is a baby. Such are the consequences of the Russian missile attack on the Dnieper on Friday, June 28. Rescuers spent the night dismantling the rubble of a destroyed high-rise building.
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Zelensky awarded five photographers with state orders
President Volodymyr Zelensky honored Ukrainian media with state awards, including five photographers. The relevant decree №383/2024 was published on the website of the Head of State on the occasion of the Constitution Day of Ukraine.
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The exhibition “Brave to Bring Light” was held in The Hague, Netherlands
Cultural diplomacy is an important tool for building international relations, promoting mutual understanding and strengthening cultural ties between countries. One of the striking examples of such diplomacy is the presentation of a photobook about the most difficult winter in the history of independent Ukraine “Dare to bear light” in The Hague.
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Murder of the “first cyborg” in Kyiv. Explosion of the car of the commander of special intelligence officers Maxim Shapoval in the photos of Serhiy Nuzhnenko
On June 27, 2017, around 8 am, the commander of one of the special purpose units of the Main Intelligence Directorate Maxim Shapoval died. His car exploded at the intersection of Solomenskaya and Mechanisatorov streets. The murder was classified as a terrorist act.
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The hottest spot on the map. Avdeivska industrial zone in the photos of the documentarian Oleksandr Klymenko
On January 30, 2017, the Armed Forces took control of the Avdeyev industrial zone, knocking out the Russians from there. The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes photos of photojournalist Oleksandr Klymenko, who documented the stay of Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka industrial zone.
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Tired soldiers and a green corridor under fire. The withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Debaltsev in the lens of Oleksandr Klymenko
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes photos of photojournalist Oleksandr Klymenko, who documented the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Debaltsev after heavy fighting.
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Seven days and nights of fighting for “Diamond-2" continued in Avdiivka. The consequences of the battle in the photographs of the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Klymenko
On the morning of January 31, 2017, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the stronghold of the militants “Almaz-2” in Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region. The position was strategically important in the overall defense system of the country, as it allowed to control the roads Donetsk-Luhansk and Donetsk-Horlivka.
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Mstyslav Chernov was invited to become a member of the jury of the Oscar film award
The founder of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, BAFTA winner and Oscar winner, director of the documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol” Mstyslav Chernov was invited to the jury of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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WEYUAPP: Europe through the eyes of Ukrainians
WEYUAPP is an art project created by Italian photographer Lisa Borgiani in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP). The project is a continuation of the series “What does Europe mean to you?” (WEY), which explores the sense of European identity through the personal histories and visual images of residents of European countries.
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Ukrainian House presented the album “FLASH. Ukrainian Photography 2022-2023”
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.
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Panoramic pictures of the war of Dmytro Malyshev
Dmytro Malyshev is a photographer, recently a member of the UAFF, who has been engaged in panoramic photography for more than 10 years. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry has documented the consequences of Russian crimes in VR format. By this time he had taken more than 1700 panoramic photographs in more than 30 settlements.
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Life as a Deadline: 10 Years of War in the Photos of Olexandr Klymenko
Oleksandr Klymenko is a photojournalist who, even before the beginning of independence, began filming the main events in Ukraine. In addition, he has repeatedly covered armed conflicts in different countries of the world. However, in 2014, he had to put on an armored vest and go with his camera to the war in his country. In the spring of 2024, it will be 10 years since the Russians tried to destroy Ukraine.
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“These are the people we will thank for a long time to come.” Photographer Sasha Maslov about the photo book “SAINTS” and its heroes
Ukrainian-American photographer from Kharkiv, UAPP participant Sasha Maslov together with the Canadian-Ukrainian project Saint Javelin presented the photobook “SAINTS” (translated from English — “saints” — ed.). This is a publication about the personal sacrifice of people who decided to resist the brutal Russian invasion, which the whole world has been watching since February 24, 2024 until now.
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Forbidden and wounded Kherson region of photographer Ivan Antipenko
Ivan Antipenko is a Ukrainian journalist, photographer and videographer who mostly covers the Russian-Ukrainian war in the South of Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russians came to his home, in his hometown of Kherson. On November 13, he returned home, but under shelling and in the water he continues his work. We talk to Ivan Antipenko about favorite destroyed places in Kherson, about occupation and liberation, about flooding and shelling, about the ban and permits for filming.
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Love for black and white film pictures of Kharkiv photographer Vladislav Krasnoshchek
Capture, display, print and scan — this is the process of film shots of Kharkiv artist, photographer, doctor Vladislav Krasnoshok. It captures the Russian-Ukrainian war, its consequences, its tragedies and its heroes in black and white pictures. About photos, their meaning and approach to work — we talk with Vladislav.
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The kremlins narratives. Russia continues to justify shelling of civilian facilities with fakes about the location of Ukrainian military
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it will check the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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How the Russians tried to justify the attack on the Kharkiv “Epicenter” in TikTok
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it will verify the authenticity of certain manipulations of information by contacting the original source and communicating with eyewitnesses.
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How Nikolaev photographer Serhiy Melnichenko implements a grant project for €50 000 “Under the Dnipro”
The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation from Munich, which supports modern art and natural sciences, provided Nikolaev photographer, founder of the school of conceptual and art photography “MYPH”, UAP participant Sergey Melnychenko a scholarship in the amount of 50 thousand euros for the realization of the photo project “Under the Dnipro".
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The front line is 7 kilometers away. How Russians are trying to destroy Toretsk, and Ukrainians are trying to defend it
Toretsk is a city in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk region, located about 7 kilometers from the contact line. Every day, the occupiers shell Toretsk, like every Ukrainian frontline settlement. In 2014, Dzerzhinsk, and now decommunized Toretsk, was a typical mining town among the Terikons. Until recently, one of the mines was called “Holy Matrona of Moscow”, now it is abbreviated as “Holy Matron”.
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What did the international press publish in April? A selection of photos by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
American, British, Chinese, Italian, and Australian media published photos by Ukrainian photographers in April. UAPF is proud of the documentary photographers whose photos represent their country in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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How the virtual online museum 360war.in.ua captures the scale of destruction caused by Russian aggression
Not only to see the horrors of war on a map, but also to enter the destroyed buildings and walk the streets that Russian tanks drove yesterday. In Ukraine, they created a virtual museum 360war.in.ua to preserve the memory of the consequences of the Russian invasion. Panoramic photos of destroyed Ukrainian cities and villages in 360 format, that is, the viewing angle of which is 360 degrees, are available on the online map of Ukraine.
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How to apply for international photo contests and win? The Experience of Roman Pylypiy, Olena Grom and Oleksandr Rupeta
Any participation in a photo contest, regardless of the results, contributes to the professional growth of the photographer. In the case of Ukrainian photographers, it is also an opportunity to tell the international audience about the Russian-Ukrainian war and its consequences, as well as to be heard.
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Mykolaiv photographers invite to the photo exhibition “MYPH: Tattoos of War”
MYPH, a well-known school of conceptual and art photography in the South of Ukraine, invites to the exhibition five winners and winners of the subgrant program who received 750$ as part of the project “Mykolaiv School of Photography (MYPH): Tattoos of War”.
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What did the international press publish? A selection of photos by members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers
Photos of members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in the international press: February and March selection. UAPP is proud of the Ukrainian documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war. That is why the association is launching a monthly column on photos of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers that have traveled the world.
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“In the struggle for freedom of speech and independence”: UAPP in partnership with IWEK e.V. held media literacy trainings and an exhibition
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers together with Danylo Poliluyev-Schmidt continue to cover events in Ukraine at the international level. Danylo held a seminar “Armed truth — images of Ukrainian media” within the StudiumPlus program, where the exhibition “Armed truth - 10 years of the Revolution of Dignity and Euromaidan in Ukraine” was also presented.
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How to take pictures in dangerous and scary places? A frank conversation with military commander Marian Kushnir about shooting in hot spots
A documentary filmmaker records events as an observer without interfering, leaving a historical record. How do you turn on the camera when enemy bullets whistle over your head, and your body shudders from the sounds of artillery or shells falling like rain nearby? We talk to war correspondent Marian Kushnir about the photographer's work on the frontline, in the trenches and other hot spots during the attacks.
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Wounded Kharkiv is a city in the eyes of those who document the consequences of Russian attacks for Ukrainian and world media
Burned houses and cars, smashed windows, blood stains on the asphalt, dead bodies covered on the ground — wounds on the body of the city. From every shelling, “arrival” or other consequences of Russian attacks, people suffer, and with them their property acquired during their lifetime. Favorite places disappear, historical architecture collapses, high-rise buildings become abandoned haunted houses, and the panorama of the city loses its usual appearance.
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Black column of smoke over Odesa. Consequences of Russian shelling in the lens of Olexandr Gimanov
This morning, June 24, there were explosions in Odessa. The Russians launched two missiles, probably the Iskander-K. One of them did not achieve the goal thanks to the work of air defense.
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Russians shelled a school, an industrial zone and a private sector in Kharkiv. The consequences of the enemy attack on the photos of Yevgeny Gartner
Kharkiv is again under enemy attack. Russian troops fired at least three guided aerial bombs on the Ukrainian city. 10 people were injured, 1 person was killed as a result of the attack of the Russians on civilian objects in the Shevchenko and Kholodnogorsky districts of Kharkiv. This was announced by the head of the OVA Oleg Synegubov. Among the victims are two teenagers aged 15 and 16. It is also known that two are in serious condition, another person received moderate injuries.
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Russians hit a residential building in Kharkiv with a KAB. Consequences of war crime in the lens of documentary filmmaker Georgy Ivanchenko
37 people were wounded and three were killed - such are the consequences of another Russian shelling on Kharkov. The invaders hit the city with guided air bombs. The explosions thundered around 15 p.m. on June 22. Before that, the Air Force warned about the launching of guided aerial bombs by tactical aviation in Kharkiv region.
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“The security forces turned out to be weak men.” How Ukraine lost Donetsk in the photos of Serhiy Vaganov
Ten years ago, in March 2014, Russian hybrid forces began seizing the authorities in Donbas. Before that, Russian “green men” annexed Crimea, and then began to gradually occupy Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukrainian cities resisted, among them the million-dollar city - Donetsk.
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The aftermath of the fall of the Shahed wreckage in the suburbs of Lviv in the photos of Roman Baluk
On the night of June 19, the Lviv region was attacked by Russian “shaheds”. Five kamikaze drones were able to reach the region, which were destroyed. The village of Malekhiv in the suburbs of Lviv was damaged. There were several explosions: there are casualties and destruction.
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Beware, the revolution is coming. Events of the Maidan in the photographs of Vyacheslav Ratinsky
On November 21, 2013, the Azarov Government thwarted the signing of the European Integration Agreement. As a result, the first protesters began to gather in the center of Kiev. Subsequently, on November 30, students were beaten at Euromaidan. This was the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity, which forever transformed Ukrainian society and initiated political changes in the country.
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The Ukrainians представили фотокнигу «How we walk through the fire»
Два роки повномасштабного вторгнення росіян у 195 світлинах. The Ukrainians підготували англомовну фотокнигу «How we walk through the fire» із ключовими кадрами війни. До видання потрапили всі знімки з англомовного спецвипуску журналу Reporters, а також нові фото важливих подій російсько-української війни. Усі знімки зроблені від лютого 2022-го до лютого 2024 року. Це перша книжка видавництва The Ukrainians Publishing.
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Occupation, liberation, shelling, occupation. The tragic fate of Mariupol in the photo of Sergey Vaganov and Mstislav Chernov
During the 10 years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Mariupol managed to survive the Russian occupation, liberation, shelling of the civilian area and re-occupation. The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes moments from the life of the city of Maria in the period 2014-2022.
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Plush toys and broken sunflowers. Downed plane of Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight in photos by Mstislav Chernov
On July 17, 2014, a passenger plane “Boeing 777” of flight MH17 Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur was shot down in Eastern Ukraine. All passengers and crew died — 298 people. In terms of the number of victims, the plane crash became the largest in the history of Ukraine.
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“The more Russians we kill now, the less Russians will have to kill our children.” Two years without Roman Town Hall
June 9 — the second anniversary of the death of activist and soldier Roman Ratushny. He was remembered as a defender of Protasovy Yar, who fought against illegal buildings. He was an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity and the protests at Bankovaya. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Roman Ratushny became a volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was a scout of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade “Kholodnyy Yar”.
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“A second Bucha is being made out of Vovchansk”. How Russian propagandists use photos of Ukrainian documentarians to cover up civilian killings in Volchansk
Photography in the Russian-Ukrainian war is not only a valuable and truthful document of events, but also a weapon that is actively used for its own purposes for disinformation and distortion of facts. The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is starting to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it will check the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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More than 100 Ukrainian and foreign journalists have been in Russian captivity since 2014, — IMI
On Journalist's Day, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers honors the memory of all media workers killed in the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as remembers colleagues who are illegally held captive by the enemy.
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“When the infantry trusts you to walk beside them, it's more than all the honors and awards.” Maryan Kushnir and Serhiy Nuzhnenko became the winners of the competition “Honor of the profession”
The ceremony of awarding the winners of the competition of professional journalism “Honor of the Profession” was held in Kyiv. The winners of six main nominations and five special nominations were chosen from 700 journalists and 1,240 submitted materials.
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Consequences of the russian strike on the Kharkiv five-story building in the photos of Yakiv Lyashenko
Another terrorist act by the Russians in Kharkiv. At midnight on May 31, several explosions were heard in Kharkiv: Russian troops hit S-300 and S-400 missiles on residential buildings from the territory of the Belgorod region.
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Epicenter of tragedy and pain in Kharkiv after enemy plane bombs on hypermarket in documentary photos
A large-scale fire, a column of black smoke over the city and the bodies of the murdered Kharkov residents in the parking lot are the consequences of another crime of Russians against civilians. Today, May 25, at 16:02, Russian troops shelled the hypermarket “Epicentrum” in Kharkiv with the Cabas. The number of dead and wounded is increasing every hour.
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What did the international press publish in May? A selection of photos by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
Italian, Singaporean, American, British, Canadian, and German media published photos by Ukrainian photographers in May. UAPF is proud of the documentary photographers whose photos represent their country in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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The bodies of the dead among the burned books. The consequences of the Russian attack on the printing house in Kharkiv in the photos of Alexander Magula
On May 23, Russian forces launched ten strikes on Kharkov. There were powerful explosions in the city. Today, the target of the enemy has become a printing house and transport infrastructure. According to preliminary data, the enemy attacked the city with S-300 missiles. Attacks were recorded in Kholodnogorsky and Osnovyan districts.
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Ruins and blood after “arrival” in Kharkiv. Documentary photos of Georgy Ivanchenko and Vlada and Konstantin Liberov
Damaged high-rise buildings, trams and trolleybuses destroyed, cars burned, wounded and frightened people — these are the consequences of shelling Kharkov by Russian forces with UMPB D-30 ammunition. The explosion in the city was heard on May 22 at 13:45. The enemy once again struck from the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation on residential areas of the city — Shevchenkivskyi and Kholodnogorsk.
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The tragedy of the destroyed recreation center from the suburbs of Kharkiv on film photos by Vladislav Krasnoshchek
Destroyed gazebos and mutilated bodies under rubble are the result of another Russian attack on civilians. On the morning of May 19, Russian forces fired double strikes on the recreation area in the suburbs of Kharkiv with Iskander-M missiles. Under the impact was a recreation center in the village of Cherkaska Lozova, where about half a hundred people were.
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The aftermath of the rocket attack on warehouses in Odesa in the photos of Olexandr Gimanov
Russian troops once again fired on civilian infrastructure in Odessa. As a result: one civilian died, 8 suffered injuries of various degrees, they were sent to the hospital.
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UNESCO and IMI present photo exhibition on culture in the midst of war
In the Hanenkov Museum, the photo exhibition “Behind the Lens: Culture in the Vortex of War” about the Ukrainian cultural heritage destroyed by Russia continues. The project is implemented by the Institute of Mass Information with the support of the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund and the people of Japan.
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Shelling, evacuation and the threat of re-occupation of Vovchansk in the documentary photos by Heorhiy Ivanchenko and Yakov Lyashenko
Volchansk is a city in Kharkiv region, located 4 km from the border with the Russian Federation and almost 50 km from Kharkiv itself. For the sixth day in a row, the city does not leave the front pages of the world media. Shelling, fire and destruction. Today, the city is under constant fire from the Russians. For the second time in the entire period of the Russian full-scale invasion, Volchansk may be captured. The invaders are trying to surround Volchansk, approaching it from different sides.
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Russians have been shelling Kharkiv all day: injured citizens, fires and destruction in the photos of documentary filmmakers
After noon on Wednesday, May 14, the Russians shelled Kharkiv several times. A series of explosions were heard in the city. First, the Russians hit a residential high-rise building in the city center. As a result of this attack, apartments from the 9th to the 13th floors were destroyed in the house.
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Ukrainian photographer Serhiy Korovainyi took part in a master class from World Press Photo
Joop Swart's Master Class is World Press Photo's most renowned educational program for beginner photographers in documentary photography, photojournalism and visual storytelling. The Joop Swart program encourages authors to embody new and diverse approaches to photography.
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“It's funny and nice”. The websites of Ukrainian photographers have been blocked in Russia: Mstislav Chernov, Olena Grom and Sasha Maslov
Web resources of three Ukrainian documentarians, members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers are blocked in the Russian Federation with all domains and subdomains. This is reported by “Detector Media” with reference to the Russian resource “Roskomsvoboda”.
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The language of photography is universal. Documentary photographer Kateryna Moskaliuk on the value and role of photography in times of war
Kateryna Moskalyuk is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, photojournalist, documentary photographer, works published in Bloomberg Businessweek, Die Zeit, The Ukrainians, Ukraininer, Evacuation.City, Zaborona, Kunsht, Forbes Ukraine and were presented at international exhibitions in Ukraine, Great Britain, USA, Poland, Germany, Armenia, Japan and Hong Kong.
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Only the truth can stop this war. An exclusive interview with director Mstislav Chernov after the Oscar
The film of Kharkiv director Mstislav Chernov “20 Days in Mariupol” won the Oscar in the nomination Best Documentary Feature. We spoke with the author of the film in the first hours after the ceremony. You can listen to fragments of the audio version of the exclusive interview of Elena Guseynova with Mstislav Chernov on Radio Culture.
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How to document war crimes so that they can be used in court? Recommendations from the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group
Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group (ULAG, Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group) is a non-governmental organization that deals with justice in the context of armed conflict. ULAG lawyers represent victims in national and international courts, carry out legal analysis, work with archives. Their work also involves advocacy, analytical and advisory activities.
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What you shoot cannot be deleted. How photojournalists work at the sites of Russian shelling and in the war zone
With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, photojournalists covering the war have become even more difficult to work, as personal risks and threats to life have increased at times. What are the rules of work at the sites of “arrivals”? What can and can not be published? How to act when shooting is prohibited? How to shoot so that you don't have to delete the photo?
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Program to support 10 Ukrainian photographers and their projects
The "Documentary Photographers on the Frontline: the Support of Ukrainian Photographers and Their Projects" project is an important step in supporting Ukrainian documentary photographers who risk their lives to tell the truth about the military conflict in Ukraine. The UAPP will contribute to the development of this important profession and broaden the world's understanding of the situation in Ukraine by providing funding, training and security support.
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Insurance coverage of up to $100,000 for media professionals at war. Who can apply, how and when
Since May 2024, the International Journalists' Insurance Fund (IFSJ) has resumed accepting applications from Ukrainian journalists, fixers, photo and video operators who perform editorial tasks in combat zones. This is reported by the Institute of Mass Information with reference to the Association “Independent Regional Publishers of Ukraine”.
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Reporters Without Borders: opportunities for photographers
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is an international non-profit organization based in Paris whose mandate is to protect and promote freedom of information around the world. RSF's expertise is recognized in all areas of journalism, and the organization itself is known for its ability to mobilize an international network of trainers and consultants.
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Heavenly photographers. Documentary, naturalist and commercial photographers killed by Russians in the war
Eternal memory of the brave and talented photographers who died documenting the Russian invasion, or defending their country with a machine gun in their hands instead of a camera.
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Disney will re-release an abridged international TV version of the Oscars and add the “20 Days in Mariupol” win and Chernov's speech
The American Film Academy will re-release the shortened international television version of the Oscar ceremony, but this time it will include the category “Best Documentary”, in which the film “20 Days in Mariupol” won, and will also give a speech by the director, founder of the UAFF, Mstislav Chernov. This is written by the news online magazine about television and cinema Deadline.
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“There was my home": an immersive exhibition of panoramic war photos to open in Lviv
Once filled with life and now empty streets, ruined cities, destroyed apartments, abandoned villages, the team of the immersive exhibition project “Here Was My Home” demonstrates the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in VR format and 360-degree panoramic photography.
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The film “20 Days in Mariupol” directed by Mstislav Chernov won an Oscar
A historic event for Ukraine. The documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol” by director, journalist, founder of the UAFF Mstislav Chernov brought our country the first Oscar.
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How to get a $25,000 grant from The Aftermath Project to implement your own photo project about the consequences of war? Tips from the co-founder and winner of the competition
UAPF continues to support the creative ideas of photographers and promote the active development of documentary filmmakers. This time we are talking about the non-profit organization The Aftermath Project. It offers photographers from around the world to receive a $25,000 grant for a documentary project that will demonstrate to the world community the consequences of the war in depth and conviction. The works created by the grant winners help inform the public about the true price of peace.
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The winners of the Shevchenko Prize 2024 have been announced: UAPF founder Mstyslav Chernov is among the winners
The highest creative award in Ukraine for significant contribution to the development of culture and art was awarded to the Ukrainian director, documentary filmmaker, founder of the UAFF Mstislav Chernov. The corresponding Decree of the President of Ukraine with the full list of laureates of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for 2024 is published on the website of the Head of State.
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Ukraine War Archive Calls on Photographers to Contribute to the Database of Russian War Crimes
Create an archive of the most documented war in the world. This idea from the beginning of a full-scale invasion is implemented by NGO “Dokudeiz” and Infoscope. The goal is to create a database of systematic digital evidence of Russian war crimes and generally preserve testimony related to the war from eyewitnesses.
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The film “20 Days in Mariupol” won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
The film “20 Days in Mariupol” by the documentary filmmaker, director and founder of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers Mstislav Chernov won the nomination “Best Documentary Film” at the prestigious British BAFTA Film Awards. The award is presented by the British Academy of Television and Film.
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Myroslav Laiuk's book “Bakhmut” to be presented in Kyiv and a photo exhibition from the fortress city of Danylo Pavlov to open
Reports and essays about the murder of the fortress city. Publishing house Ukraіner invites to the presentation of the book “Bakhmut” and the opening of an exhibition of photos from this city.
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Mstislav Chernov received the U.S. Directors Guild Award for his film 20 Days in Mariupol
Ukrainian director, documentarian, founder of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers Mstislav Chernov received the DGA Award of the Directors Guild of America (DGA Awards) for the documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol”. According to the press service, Chernov was awarded for “outstanding directorial achievements in documentary film”.
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Changes in the rules of work of journalists in war: prolongation of accreditation and a clear description of the work of the media in the zones
Another step towards constructive communication between the media and the military. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, by order No. 51 of February 3, 2024, approved amendments to the order No. 73 on the rules of accreditation of journalists during martial law. For the first time, a detailed description of the zones, which was previously absent at all, is presented.
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Until February 24, UAPP publishes key photographs by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers over two years of full-scale invasion
This year marks 10 years since the Russians are trying to kill Ukrainians, and February 24 is the second anniversary of how the northern neighbor wants to achieve its goal with particular brutality. The largest war in Europe since World War II is multifaceted, it has many faces, symbols, images, heroes that convey its essence.
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Casualties and destruction in Odesa: the aftermath of the Russian drone attack as seen through the lens of photographer Timothy Melnikov
On the night of April 23, the Russians attacked the south of Ukraine with Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs. The residential sector of Odessa fell under the enemy's sights. As a result of the enemy attack on the city, damage was recorded to almost 60 apartments in 22 houses. Nine people were also injured, including four children. This is a boy and a girl of 5 and 9 months and two boys of 9 and 12 years.
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Ballistics in Odesa and KABs in Kharkiv: the consequences of the Russian attack on civilians in the documentary footage
On the evening of Monday, April 29, the Russians struck civilian facilities in Odessa and Kharkov, resulting in dead and injured, fires and destruction, as well as frightened dogs from an animal shelter.
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The destroyed warehouse of Nova Poshta in Odesa after a ballistic strike in the photos by Tymofiy Melnikov and Oleksandr Gimanov
On the evening of May 1, Russian troops once again attacked Odessa. The enemy struck the warehouses and the branch of Novaya Poshta. Information about the attack was confirmed on the official page of the NP. According to preliminary data, about 900 shipments were damaged and destroyed.
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The SES fought the fire for 5 hours. Large-scale fires in Kharkiv after Russian attack in the lens of Yakiv Lyashenko
On the night of May 4, Russian forces attacked Ukraine from the Belgorod region with 13 “shaheeds” and 4 S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles. Air defense forces destroyed all 13 attack drones within Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
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Easter Terror in Kharkiv. The consequences of Russian attacks in the photographs of local documentary filmmakers
Russian troops on Easter launched air strikes in the center of Kharkov. There were explosions in the city for about 15 hours. The Air Force warned about the danger of strikes from aircraft.
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Ukrainian documentary photographer Yulia Kochetova receives Global World Press Photo Award
The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the winners of the most prestigious annual prize in the field of photojournalism. Award-winning images range from devastating conflicts and political upheavals to the climate crisis and the safe passage of migrants.
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The blockbuster film Rise of the States, about the work of war correspondents, has been released in Ukraine. Vlada Liberova and Vasilisa Stepanenko shared their impressions of the work of their on-screen colleagues
On April 11, the all-Ukrainian release of one of the most anticipated films of the year — the blockbuster “Uprising of the States” directed by Alex Garland from the famous American independent company A24 started. This film, with a budget of $75 million, was the beginning of a collaboration between the A24 studio and the distribution company Green Light Films.
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29.9.2023
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Exhibition "Spalah. Ukrainian photography today"
On September 29, at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv, the opening of the photo exhibition "Spalah. Ukrainian Photography Today" took place. The project was implemented by the National Center "Ukrainian House" and the NGO "Platform for Cultural Initiatives" in cooperation with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers and with the support of the Press, Education, and Culture Department of the US Embassy in Ukraine.
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Exhibitions
12.10.2023
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The exhibition "The Siege of Mariupol - The last journalists in the occupied city"
As part of this year's Czech Photo Festival, on October 12, an exhibition titled "The Siege of Mariupol - The Last Journalists in the Occupied City" was opened at the Czech Photo Center Gallery in Prague. The exhibition features world-renowned works by Mstislav Chernov and Yevhen Maloletka. The project was realized by the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) in cooperation with Czech Photo and the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic (APF).
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Exhibitions
2.8.2023
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«Bojují i za nás»
A large-scale exhibition of the members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers entitled "They are fighting for us too" was organized in the Czech Republic, Belgium and the United States. The exhibition features more than 200 photographs documenting the vivid evidence of Russia's aggression and genocide, the lives of ordinary people in the war, and the brave struggle of our people not only for their own freedom but also for the freedom of the entire world.
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Books
14.10.2023
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Photo book "Brave to bring the light"
The photo book Brave to Bring the Light, about the most difficult winter in the history of independent Ukraine so far, includes photographs by more than 30 Ukrainian authors who documented the energy crisis caused by the Russian military's attack on Ukrainian infrastructure facilities during the fall of 2022, winter and spring of 2023.
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Exhibitions
5.5.2022
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"Ukrainian Guernica"
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF) in cooperation with the Bereznitsky Art Foundation organized a charity exhibition "Ukrainian Guernica", which was opened at the Factory Gallery, Tbilisi. The project was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and under the patronage of the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.
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Exhibitions
28.8.2022
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"Ukraine on my mind"
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in cooperation with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Andrew in Atlanta organized a series of exhibitions "Ukraine on my mind" that took place in Atlanta in August and November 2022.
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Photo Stories
Dec 24, 2024
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“No photo is worth a life": war through the lens of Oleh Petrasyuk
Oleg Petrasyuk is a photographer, serviceman of the 24th Brigade named after King Danylo and a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAFF). In this interview, he shares his experiences documenting war, talks about the difficult moral challenges of filming, and explains why photography for him is primarily a craft, not an art.
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Photo Stories
Dec 23, 2024
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What photos by Ukrainian photographers were included in the photo collections of the year by CNN, Reuters, TIME, The New York Times
Photography has become one of the key ways to capture the pain, resilience and struggle of Ukrainians in 2024. This year, global media giants CNN, Reuters and TIME have included the work of Ukrainian documentarians in their annual best-picture selections. This is a recognition not only of the talent of the authors, but also of the power of visual art, which tells the history of war, life and hope of Ukraine.
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Photo Stories
Dec 12, 2024
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About the different work of people in the same form. A conversation with Pavlo Petrov
Continuing Our Series with Ukrainian Documentary ProfessionalsThis time, we spoke with Pavlo Petrov, a photographer with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES). Pavlo shared insights about his work documenting emergencies, the unpredictability of "typical" shoots, the photos from the war that can’t yet be shown, and why capturing death is an essential part of his job.
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Photo Stories
Dec 6, 2024
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10 photos of November
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, together with Ukraїner, continues to publish a selection of important events captured by Ukrainian photographers in November 2024. This month, Ukrainian photographers took their cameras to the front lines in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, filmed farewells to fallen soldiers, shelling of cities by the enemy army, and much more.
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Photo Stories
Aug 9, 2024
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When the war came to Kharkiv. Conversation with Georgy Ivanchenko, Yakov Lyashenko and Oleksandr Magula
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. We talked about the experience of filming the war, empathy in work and the hometown of Kharkiv with Georgy Ivanchenko, Yakov Lyashenko and Oleksandr Magula.
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Photo Stories
Jun 26, 2024
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An invisible profession in the world of the visible. Conversation with Irinka Gromotska and Danil Pavlov
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. About photo editing, the role of bill-editors in the media and the voices of Ukrainians in the international field, we talked with Danylo Pavlov and Irinka Gromodska.
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Photo Stories
Mar 27, 2024
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Oksana Parfeniuk, Sasha Maslov. Conversation with documentary photographers about how they work here and now in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. Oksana Parafeniuk and Sasha Maslov told whether the war in Ukraine ceased to interest the foreign reader, how requests to documentary filmmakers were transformed and how their personal view of photo-documentary has changed.
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Photo Stories
Nov 24, 2023
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The frontline is not a safari for photographers. A conversation with Ukrainian documentary artists
During the 20 months of full-scale war, photography has become one of the main languages in which Ukraine communicates with the world. It is this language that captures events, records emotions, testifies to crimes, and writes the visual book of history.
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Photo Stories
Jan 10, 2024
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A lie in a photo lives an hour, and the truth, perhaps not so beautiful, lives an eternity. Conversation with Ukrainian Documentarians
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians, for whom shooting in the open sky, during explosions, has become familiar. This time we talked with Maryan Kushnir, Andriy Dubchak and Serhiy Nuzhnenko about the face of war, front-line reports and the transformation of everyone's personal optics over these 10 years.
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Photo Stories
May 28, 2024
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Freedom is an endeavor. Conversation with Oleksandr Hlyadelov
Today's guest was Oleksandr Hlyadelov, a Ukrainian documentary photographer, photojournalist who covered the war conflicts in Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, South Sudan and Ukraine.
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Photo Stories
Apr 25, 2024
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This war shook the concept of objectivity. Conversation with Yevhen Maloletka and Anastasia Vlasova
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. In this issue you will talk about the new generation of Ukrainian documentary photographers, the objectivity of documentary filmmaking, the ethics of documentation and what documentary photography will be like next.
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Photo Stories
Feb 21, 2024
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You are constantly, wherever you are, ambassadors of your country. A conversation with Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. This time we talked with Yulia Kochetova and Serhiy Polezhak about advocacy of the Ukrainian voice, aestheticization and focus topics of the war.
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Photo Stories
Dec 1, 2024
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A photo with a story: enveloped in landscapes of dying
Some time in our lives, even if it happened during the war, will still retain the feeling that the landscape is about the peace and beauty of existence.
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Photo Stories
Nov 27, 2024
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Drones are flying over the city, and Russians are 2.5 kilometers away. Kupiansk in the lens of Ivan Samoilov
Kupiansk, once known as an important trade hub, has today become a symbol of resistance and destruction. Historically, the city was closely linked to trade, a connection reflected even in its name—according to one version, it comes from the word "kupyets" (merchant). Another version links the name to "kupy" (peat bogs), which once covered the area.
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Photo Stories
Nov 27, 2024
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Stanislav Ostrous: “War is not only death, but also a kind of life”
Ukrainian photographer Stanislav Ostrous shared his experiences of the first days of the full-scale war in Kharkiv, the stories of people he encountered in areas liberated from Russian forces, and the places that truly embodied the soul of Kherson.
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Photo Stories
Nov 23, 2024
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“To give a voice to those who could not speak out during their lifetime.” Lesia Marushchak about the world's most famous exhibition about the Holodomor
Project MARIA by Canadian artist of Ukrainian descent Lesia Maruschak became the most famous exhibition about the Holodomor of 1932-1933, according to the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Kyiv. This artwork has traveled to nine countries, and the book based on the project has won international awards. The exhibition provides an opportunity to look at the memory of the Holodomor through art, which makes a complex topic accessible and understandable on many levels.
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Photo Stories
Nov 22, 2024
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“They were brought to Odesa to beat everyone who does not support Yanukovych”. Euromaidan and Anti-Maidan in the lens of Alexander Gimanov
On the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, the UAPF recalls how Odesa became part of the struggle for Ukraine's independence. The city, which is often called the pearl by the sea, was then on the verge of a transition between a European pro-Ukrainian future and a Russian past. In this article, we describe how Odessans fought for their freedom, and supplement the text with photographs by documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Himanov, who witnessed these events.
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Photo Stories
Nov 21, 2024
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Shots of changes that society is ready for. The Revolution of Dignity through the eyes of Mstyslav Chernov
On November 21, Ukraine marks the Day of Dignity and Freedom, commemorating the anniversaries of two significant events - the Orange Revolution of 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014. These events have become symbols of Ukrainians' aspirations for democracy, freedom and European values. Today, during the full-scale war with Russia, the struggle for these ideals continues.
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Photo Stories
Nov 17, 2024
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A photo with a story: Who has not seen our cracks
We can document the moment and document the consequences, and not just the next day, but everything that happens afterwards, everything that the moment we documented spills over and turns into.
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Photo Stories
Nov 12, 2024
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Penetration of bugs into your personal space and how to learn to coexist with it. New UAPF member Olga Koval about her projects and plans
Olha Koval is a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers who attracts the attention of the art community with her original approach to contemporary issues. Her project “Eruption” took second place in the competition of the Mykolaiv School of Photography “MYPH” and resonated with the audience and critics. She created more than 40 thousand red-winged beetles, sculpting and painting them by hand.
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Photo Stories
Nov 7, 2024
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10 photos of October
In October 2024, Ukrainian photographers filmed the hostilities mainly in the Donetsk region, where the Russian army concentrated all its power and had significant successes, and documented the shelling of the largest Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and others.
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Photo Stories
Nov 3, 2024
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A photo with a story: The reign of detail
Yesterday and today, just as in the last century, photographs show us a part of suffering that we should understand and perhaps try on ourselves, which is not evil. It is commonplace to show suffering, it still works, it attracts attention. After all, a devout Christian says that we get something better for our suffering when we die.
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Photo Stories
Oct 28, 2024
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Light and Shadows by Bohdan Huliai. A new UAPP participant talks about memory, art, and new projects
Bogdan Huliai has become a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. His work goes beyond traditional reportage photography - Bohdan explores deep themes of memory, existence, and personal stories, which he skillfully conveys mostly in film photographs. Some of Huliai's projects require a long time for deeper reflection, and sometimes even re-reading the Bible to find a new perspective on classic stories.
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Photo Stories
Oct 20, 2024
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A photo with a story: The appeal of the image is the confusion of reality
This image, taken out of context, stops me and makes me interested, but reality erases all the aesthetic dimensions of the composition. It is difficult to talk about such pictures - I like them or I don't like them. Of course, I like the composition, the hunched bodies in a limited space touching each other, the flow of colors and the way the eye slides from one man's back to another, but I don't like the situation, the disgusting bodies and men's backs, their hands and, above all, their faces..
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Photo Stories
Oct 15, 2024
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A Research That Became a Challenge: Olga Kovaleva and Vladislav Krasnoshchek on Filming in a Russian POW Camp
Photographers Olga Kovaleva and Vladislav Krasnoshchek, who actively document the Russia-Ukraine war, visited a Russian POW camp. They intended to create a photo report, but working among prisoners of war turned out to be challenging. For Vladislav and Olga, who came under enemy artillery fire in Donetsk in the summer of 2024, filming in the camp became not only a professional challenge but also an emotional one.
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Photo Stories
Oct 10, 2024
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Some of the first volunteers. Training, farewells, and the war of the "Azov" fighters in the photographs of Vyacheslav Ratynskyi and Anatolii Stepanov.
The "Azov" Battalion was created on May 5, 2014, in the city of Berdiansk as a special police patrol battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs based on a decision by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The battalion emerged from the Ukrainian partisan group "Chornyi Korpus," which voluntarily participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, particularly in Kharkiv and the Sea of Azov region in 2014.
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Photo Stories
Oct 7, 2024
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A photograph should speak without text. A conversation with Oleksandr Klymenko
We continue our series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentary filmmakers. We talked to Oleksandr Klymenko about his experience as a photojournalist for a newspaper, his experience of filming the war in the Balkans and Ukraine, and the advantages of black-and-white photography.
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Photo Stories
Oct 6, 2024
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10 photos of september
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications of important photos from the past month relating to key events in Ukraine.
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Photo Stories
Oct 6, 2024
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A photo with a story: Hello, brother
In such photos, any search for metaphors seems to be an exaggeration for its own sake. Reality is more terrifying than fiction and interpretation.
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Photo Stories
Oct 5, 2024
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“In many houses, the lights are no longer turned on - entire families died there.” The tragedy in the village of Hroza in the photos of Yakiv Lyashenko
On October 5, 2023, the Russian military struck a cafe in the village of Hroza in the Kharkiv region with an Iskander missile. The café was hosting a memorial dinner, which was attended by many villagers. The strike killed 59 people, including an eight-year-old child.
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Photo Stories
Sep 30, 2024
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The case of August 31. Explosions near the Verkhovna Rada in the photos of Viacheslav Ratynskyi
On August 31, 2015, police and activists who opposed the adoption of constitutional amendments on decentralization of power clashed near the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. More than a hundred people were injured, and four members of the National Guard were killed.
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Photo Stories
Sep 23, 2024
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“I was appointed a press officer, even though I didn't want to be”. Yevhen Borysovskyi about photography at the front, censorship and the work of a press officer
Yevhen Borysovskyi, a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, embodies two roles: serviceman and photographer. Appointed as the head of the communications department of the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade in Zhytomyr, he never planned to pursue a career in either the military or photography, but life and war had other plans.
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Photo Stories
Sep 21, 2024
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A photo with a story: Then the town is conquered by dogs, and each subsequent one looks into it like water
A reasonable fear of obvious metaphors always tries to stop the author, but how hard is it to avoid them when it comes to a town called Chasiv Yar. How to avoid the metaphor of a town devastated by war, which now belongs to dogs and memories to some extent, to the few remaining people with weapons (because they need to somehow fight off those dogs), and most importantly to the military, who need to defend the town from the Russians, no matter what ravine or abyss of numbed time and memory...
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Photo Stories
Sep 21, 2024
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“Other Days of Life": a series of photographs by Oleksandr Rupeta about people who refuse to be conquered
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta won the Xposure Photography Award 2024 for Best Independent Freelance Photojournalist with his series "Other Days of Life." For over a year, he captured life across different regions of Ukraine, offering a personal perspective on the war.
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Photo Stories
Sep 16, 2024
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War Nouveau: A series by Yurko Dyachyshyn exploring the new landscapes of war.
Lviv photographer Yurko Dyachyshyn has been documenting life during the war since the first hours of the full-scale Russian invasion. He specifically captures how the familiar landscapes of his hometown, Lviv, are changing under the aggressive impact of war. Yurko Dyachyshyn shared his thoughts on working on the War Nouveau project, the limits of aesthetics during wartime, and why he doesn't believe that a single photograph can stop a war, though he hopes he is wrong.
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Photo Stories
Sep 15, 2024
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Not My Home: Life in a Modular Town Captured in Photographs by Danilo Pavlov.
У січні 2015 року на околиці міста Харків, недалеко від аеропорту, збудували модульне містечко для переселенців зі сходу України та Криму. Планувалось, що невеликі житлові контейнери стануть тимчасовим прихистком для внутрішньо переміщених родин. Утім, дуже скоро, огороджене парканом поселення перетворилось на гетто і стало проблемою для муніципальної влади.
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Photo Stories
Sep 13, 2024
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ATO is over. The beginning of the Joint Forces Operation in the photographs of Danylo Pavlov.
On April 30, 2018, the large-scale anti-terrorist operation in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine was completed. The ATO was restructured into the Joint Forces Operation. General Serhiy Nayev became the commander of the operation.
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Photo Stories
Sep 12, 2024
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Vladislav Krasnoshchek: “I once noticed a tattoo on someone’s body — the face of Christ. It turns out, Jesus is dead.”
Photographer and artist Vladislav Krasnoshchek, a representative of the new wave of the Kharkiv School of Photography, continues to document the Russian-Ukrainian war. At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he captured the situation in his native Kharkiv and traveled with volunteers to the front line.
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Photo Stories
Sep 8, 2024
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The Story Behind the Photo: Knowledge Day on Order and Safety
September 1st is Knowledge Day. For example, knowledge about how the Geneva Convention guarantees the unconditional protection of medical personnel.
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Aug 28, 2024
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Maksym Dondiuk on the tragedy in Ilovaisk: "The most important photographs for me are of the guys who lost their lives."
In August 2014, one of the fiercest battles for Ukrainian forces unfolded near the town of Ilovaisk during the war in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian command decided to storm the city, which was occupied by pro-Russian militants and located 43 kilometers from Donetsk. However, the operation turned into a tragedy. The fighting lasted nearly a month, with about 400 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the "Ilovaisk pocket," another 400 wounded, and approximately 300 captured.
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Aug 25, 2024
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A photo with a story: There is something of ordinary women in these unidentified Kasandras.
These women in yellow scarves, sitting on benches near their homes by the road, are not so much unheard Cassandras as they are unrecognized.
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Aug 23, 2024
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Unicorn battalion
LGBTQ+ Soldiers of Ukraine Fight for Their Country and Their Rights Amid the Chaos of War
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Aug 10, 2024
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Photo with a story by Vira Kuriko: This is love — and not a word more.
Ten years of war, about a hundred trains connect the country from city to town, heading towards the front line wherever it's still possible, and sometimes it's hard to get a ticket for the "Kyiv-War" train.
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Aug 7, 2024
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10 Photos of July: A Collection of Important Photos of the Month by UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring important photographs from the past month, highlighting key events in Ukraine.
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Photo Stories
Aug 6, 2024
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Lviv photographer Marta Syryko about the Sculpture Project, The Bachelor, inclusivity, the body, and trauma
Lviv-based photographer Marta Syryko has created a series of photographs of Ukrainian veterans who lost their limbs in the war. The author dedicated her project “Sculptural” to art based on ancient Greek statues. Today, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is publishing a conversation with the author and her photographs.
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Jul 29, 2024
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“My photography cannot be about the war”. New UAPF member Daria Svertilova about her projects, reflections and photo dreams
We talk about the project Temporary Home (or Dormitory), jet photography during the war, photography education in France, and the dream photo with a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, Daria Svertilova from Odesa.
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Photo Stories
Jul 28, 2024
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Photo with story by Vira Kuriko: It seems to be about whiteness and painfulness
It's not even about the color (only whether white is so white), but whether it's decent to walk around so clean at noon on July 8, when the Russians had just shelled the Okhmatdyt children's hospital and the area near the Lukyanivska metro station in Kyiv. And we're talking about just a few missiles out of thirty-eight that flew at different Ukrainian cities.
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Jul 11, 2024
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10 photos of June: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues to share key photos of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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Jun 15, 2024
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Where there is a bare pier and Oleshky sands. Photo with the story through the eyes of Elena Guseinova
I remembered this photo of Ivan Antipenko in the first week of June. Blooming lilac and a fighter with a smoke block. Antipenko took this photo back in April. In the Kherson region. In the south, lilac blooms faster. Strawberries and cherries ripen faster. Russian air bombs arrive faster. And many more things in the south are happening faster. But I don't know how to use the word “faster” when describing the path to the Hola Marina or the Oleshkov Sands.
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Jun 11, 2024
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10 photos of May: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues to share key photos of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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May 12, 2024
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“I try to find a goal in every flight.” Photo with the story through the eyes of Olena Huseinova
Photography captures what the eye can see. Captures what is happening. The way it is here and now. With detail and clarity available here and now.
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May 8, 2024
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10 photos of April: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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Apr 5, 2024
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10 photos of March: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraїner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, continues its series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion.
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Mar 7, 2024
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10 photos of February: a selection of key photos of the month from UAPP and Ukraіner
UAPP, in partnership with Ukraїner, is launching a series of publications featuring key photographs of the month related to the full-scale invasion. Some capture specific historical events, while others show ordinary moments skillfully transformed into symbols by the photographer. All of them are part of the new history we are creating together.
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Jan 29, 2024
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Time to live and time to fight. Ukrainian youth fighting for their future in Vyacheslav Ratynskyi's photo project
As part of the UAPP grant support for documentary photographers, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute, we continue to share documentary projects of photographers. This time we present the project “Time to live and time to fight” by Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Vyacheslav Ratynsky.
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Jan 10, 2024
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PEACE AND TRANQUILITY. A documentary project by Heorhiy Ivanchenko
Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and member of the Association from the first months of the invasion began filming for Associated Press and European Pressphoto Agency. Starting from Borodyanshchyna, where Georgy was born, continuing his journey through the front line: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, now his attention was concentrated on Donetsk region. The turning point in his photography was that he lived in Bakhmut for almost a month.
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Dec 17, 2023
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Near Bakhmut, from winter to winter. The story of twenty-year-old veterans through the eyes of Oleksandr Babenko
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute.
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Dec 13, 2023
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“Even the silence here reminds us of the shelling”. A visual essay by Ihor Ishchuk about the city of Kherson and its people
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute. Igor Ishchuk explores the topic of social inequality, parallel communities and the consequences of urbanization of urban neighborhoods. He is currently covering the war in Ukraine.
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Dec 11, 2023
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"Generation". A documentary project by Olena Grom
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of the grant support of documentary photographers from the UAFF, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute.
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Dec 11, 2023
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Beyond the spoil tip: Kostiantyn Guzenko documents children from frontline regions
Within the framework of the grant for documentary photographers, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute, we continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists. Konstiantyn Guzenko spent a month with volunteer organizations that have taken on the responsibility of supporting the children who have remained in certain settlements of Kupiansk district and Donetsk region, which are closest to the contact line.
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Dec 8, 2023
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The second winter in war. A documentary project by Serhiy Korovainyi
Documentary photographer Serhiy Korovainyi visits the de-occupied villages and towns in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, recording how people survived the occupation and are gradually returning to life.
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Dec 7, 2023
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Echoes of Donbass - A documentary project by Tymofii Melnykov
We continue to share the documentary projects of the finalists within the framework of grant support from the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. Timofey Melnikov went to Donetsk region to work on the documentary project “Echoes of Donbass”.
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Dec 5, 2023
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The sea is gone. A documentary project by Oleksandr Rupeta
The project “Photodocumentarians at the forefront: supporting Ukrainian photographers and their projects” is a microgrant program from the UAFF that helps support Ukrainian documentary photographers who risk their lives to tell the truth about the war in Ukraine. Today we begin to share a series of documentary works of 10 finalists, namely the project of Alexander Rupeta.
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May 18, 2024
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Life after deportation and before the occupation. Crimean Tatars by Gennadiy Minchenko
On May 18, Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatars. 80 years ago at 3:00am on May 18, 1944, the Soviet authorities began the evacuation of all Crimean Tatars from their native peninsula. At that time, about 200,000 people were forcibly taken out in goods wagons. Almost half died on the road or in the first years after deportation.
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Apr 14, 2024
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Ukrainian photographers of the twentieth century: who shot what
Photographic shops, photo studios and private photography courses. On the territory of modern Ukraine at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, photography became commonplace. Artists united in professional and amateur societies. Some people made millions from photographs and gained fame, and some went bankrupt and lost everything. Someone worked as a photojournalist for Soviet newspapers, and someone was a freelancer and travel blogger.
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Apr 10, 2024
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Alone. Kateryna Moskaliuk's project about the wives of fallen soldiers
The photo project “Alone” is the stories of women from all over Ukraine, whose husbands died during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Starokostyantyniv or small towns and villages — the pain has no definite location. Photographer Ekaterina Moskalyuk took portraits of the wives of dead servicemen, things that they keep in memory of their husbands, and also photographed friends and close women who help them search for new meanings in life.
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Apr 26, 2024
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The Chornobyl explosion and nuclear terror during the Russian occupation.The suffering of Chornobyl in the pictures of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
April 26, 2024 marks 38 years since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. However, since 2022 — this day they remember another tragedy that Chernobyl had to experience — the invasion of Russian troops.
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Mar 24, 2024
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“I don't know when you'll get this message,” my friend writes to me. “You're always on time,” I reply. Photo with the story through the eyes of Olena Huseynova
I saw her smile. And she saw that I saw her, too. And that I smile too. We talked about why we learned to pause before saying something that could scare. And about why we talk so much and there are so few stories left. We talked for a long time. She moved around the apartment. I turned on the lights in the kitchen. I turned off the light in the kitchen. And lit it in the living room. And then her phone ran out.
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Mar 10, 2024
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“One life is enough for a drone: Olena Huseynova and photo of the week
Vyacheslav Ratinsky took this photo back in winter, in February. One of the Ukrainian charitable foundations transfers FPV drones to the military, on which people from all over Ukraine have been pouring money for several months. Two thousand FPV drones laid out in long thin black and white lines on the floor of a large pavilion. Between these lines, the Ukrainian military holds one of the drones in his hands like a toy.
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Mar 3, 2024
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The small one is protected by the big one. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
Iva Sidash took this photo on 24 February 2024 in Washington, DC, at the Lincoln Memorial, during a rally marking the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion. The boy is sitting on the steps of the monument. A large Ukrainian flag is waving above him. He is holding a small Ukrainian flag. The small one is protected by the big one.
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Feb 25, 2024
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How much time and effort will it take for everyone to return? Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On 20 February, 11 Ukrainian children abducted by Russians were returned to Ukraine. The crossing took place in the evening on the border between Ukraine and Belarus, in the Volyn region. Roman Pylypei's photo was taken during this return. It shows no signs of a disaster. The night, a car, the lights on, a woman and a child in the back seat. Everything resembles a nativity scene. A portable two-stage baroque wooden puppet theatre with the appearance of "great joy" in the world being performed.
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Feb 11, 2024
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Words pale before hatred, personal and all-encompassing. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On the evening of 9 February, Russian attack drones from the Belgorod region targeted Kharkiv. Several of them hit the tanks of an oil depot in the Nemyshlyansky district. Fuel leaked out, mixed with snow, and spread across the street, causing a huge fire. Rescuers fought the fire and searched for victims throughout the night and into the next day.
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Feb 8, 2024
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Pain is universal, evil is real. Olena Huseynova analyzes the photo of the week
I met her in December on the train Przemysl — Kyiv. There was free space in my compartment, and the conductor dropped it off at me. She apologized - the train from Prague was late, the train to Kiev, for which she had a ticket, did not wait. I seemed to sympathize. And maybe not. I remember little of what was before her phrase: “My husband is in captivity.” But everything that happened after that phrase, I remember very well.
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Jan 28, 2024
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A holiday displayed by an explosive wave. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
This photo by Pavlo Dorohoi has been reposted by everyone. Or so it seemed to me. I saw it on the Facebook page of a military journalist I know, on the Facebook page of an unknown eyebrow artist from Myrhorod Even an IT specialist from Kyiv who managed to flee to Berlin in the spring of 2022 left this photo in his stories for 24 hours. The blue haze of cold Kharkiv. A bare tree with things hanging from its branches, thrown out from neighboring houses by a Russian missile blast.
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Jan 21, 2024
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Winter is on the front line. Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
Konstantin Liberov's photo was taken in the Serebryansky Forest. "Winter at the Front" is the plain title of the picture and the whole set.
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Jan 14, 2024
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"Our endurance must be long". Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
On 11 January, Kyiv said goodbye to Maksym "Dali" Kryvtsov. He was a volunteer, a soldier, a junior sergeant, and a tutor at the Motley Raccoons children's camp. He was also a poet. In December 2023, at the very beginning of a brilliant literary career, Maksym Kryvtsov published his first book of poetry. We will never know what his poetic voice would have become, how it would have changed and matured.
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Jan 7, 2024
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"Feel that angle inside you." Olena Huseynova analyses the Photo of the Week
We see photos every day and everywhere. But what kind of images surround us? What are they for? What ideas do they imply? Today, we are announcing a new column - photo of the week analysis with Ukrainian radio presenter and writer Olena Huseynova, in which we will interpret what the photos taken by Ukrainian photographers are saying or trying to say to us. Let's start with a photo by Oleh Palchyk, taken at the Kherson railway station on December 27.
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December 20, 2024
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Russian ballistics in the center of Kyiv: the consequences of missile attacks through the lens of documentary filmmakers
On the morning of December 20, Russian troops attacked Kyiv using Kinzhal air defense missiles and Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, all five ballistic missiles were shot down by air defense forces.
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December 16, 2024
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“The arrival of the Russians is not a punishment, but a blessing”. How Russia manipulates narratives about peace and the surrender of the occupied regions
Russia occupied Ukrainian territory back in 2014. In the third year of a full-scale war, a significant part of Ukrainian lands still remains in the hands of the Russians. Five regions of Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula are partially occupied, including major port cities and critical infrastructure.
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December 7, 2024
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Without waiting for tomorrow. Why the MYPH Photography Prize is interesting for young photographers
Mykolaiv School of Conceptual and Artistic Photography MYPH, which has existed since 2018, this year launched the MYPH Photography Prize 2024 for young photographers.
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December 1, 2024
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“Seeing The Unseen": How Iva Sidash won one of the most prestigious awards in photojournalism for young photographers
Photographer and member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, Iva Sidash, has won the top category in the prestigious Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant.
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November 29, 2024
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What did the international press publish in November? A selection of photos by Ukrainian photographers
Photos of the members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in the international media: summarizing November. UAPF is proud to recognize Ukrainian documentary photographers whose work covers the main events in Ukraine and once again focuses the world's attention on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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November 26, 2024
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Bombs and IPSO: How Russia is trying to devastate unconquered Kharkiv
Kharkiv, a frontline city of one million people in northeastern Ukraine, has been under attack by ballistic missiles, anti-aircraft gunships, attack drones, and information and psychological operations (IPO) every day since the start of the full-scale invasion.
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November 17, 2024
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The culmination of a week of terror: 120 missiles and 90 drones in Ukraine overnight. Photos by documentary filmmakers from Kharkiv and Odesa
The night of November 17 was the culmination of a week of Russian terror: the Russian army fired 120 missiles and 90 attack drones at Ukraine. This attack ended a week of large-scale shelling, during which the occupiers used nearly 140 missiles, 900 bombs, and 600 drones to strike peaceful Ukrainian cities.
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November 16, 2024
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Warm events in cold times. The Orange Revolution in the photographs of Andriy Lomakin
November 22, 2004 is the twentieth anniversary of the Orange Revolution, which began as a protest against the fraudulent 2004 presidential election in Ukraine. The event got its name from the color used by supporters of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and the opposition party Our Ukraine. In contrast, supporters of Viktor Yanukovych were associated with the white and blue colors of their symbols.
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November 15, 2024
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“Cars with the bodies of locals who tried to evacuate are burnt on both sides of the road.” The frontline town of Kurakhove through the lens of Anton Shtuka
Kurakhove, a town in the Pokrovsk district of eastern Ukraine, is trapped in the fighting and is now surrounded on three sides by Russian troops. The enemy is three kilometers away, and about a thousand residents remain in the town. Without water, electricity and heating, people are surviving in the basements of apartment buildings, hoping for the day when this horror will finally end.
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November 9, 2024
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A week of shelling, destruction and testing: the aftermath of Russian attacks on Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Kherson
During the week of November 4-9, 2024, Russian troops intensified their attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities far from the frontline. Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, and other settlements where hundreds of thousands and even millions of people live every day were targeted by drones and missiles. These strikes have left behind not only destruction but also deep psychological and physical wounds, forcing Ukrainians to remember every day that even in the home front, security remains conditional.
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November 9, 2024
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From dream to reality: How Kyiv's independent bookstore “Zbirka” lives with a curated selection of books
At the Zbirka bookstore on 2a Zolotovoritska Street, every book is more than just a printed text. Each publication on the shelves has its own special story, intertwined with human destinies, art, and accidental discoveries. The bookstore offers such areas as art and design, architecture, culture and history, sociology and psychology, photography and books about photography.
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November 7, 2024
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How to find a common visual language with bild editors. Tips from photo editor Iryna Gromotska
The Kyiv Independent's photo editor Iryna Gromotska talks about collaborating with photographers, working together on materials, and how to best pitch your project to get it published by the media.
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November 4, 2024
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“They are trying to bring us back to the 17th century”. How Russian propaganda legalizes shelling of Ukrainian energy sector.
"Taras, a power plant worker, was working in the control room when Russian missiles hit the plant en masse. He had to stay late to complete important tasks when the air raid siren went off and his colleagues ran for their lives.
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November 4, 2024
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A week of anxiety and destruction. Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson in the photographs of documentary filmmakers
Between October 28 and November 3, 2024, peaceful and relatively rearward Ukrainian cities were once again targeted by Russian shelling, resulting in civilian casualties and widespread destruction. This week, drone and missile attacks have kept Kyiv and Kharkiv residents awake almost every night, and Kherson residents have also been affected.
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November 1, 2024
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A police officer was killed and his colleagues were wounded. Consequences of rocket attacks on Kharkiv in the photos of Georgiy Ivanchenko
On Friday, November 1, at 16:05, explosions were heard in Kharkiv again. The Russian occupiers fired two S-300 missiles, causing destruction in the residential sector. As a result of the missile attack, 40-year-old police colonel Andriy Matvienko, who served in the frontline region, was killed. Another 26 of his colleagues and four civilians were injured, some of them in serious condition.
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October 31, 2024
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A guided aerial bomb on a high-rise building in Saltovka. Photo report by Ivan Samoilov
The death of a child, people under the rubble, a large-scale fire and overturned cars - another night of horrors for Kharkiv residents. At night, a Russian air bomb destroyed a high-rise building in Kharkiv.
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October 29, 2024
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A Russian missile hit the symbol of Kharkiv, the Derzhprom building. The consequences in the photos by Yevhen Gertner and Heorhiy Ivanchenko
On October 28, Russia attacked the central part of Kharkiv, causing damage to the historic Derzhprom building, an outstanding example of constructivism and a candidate for the UNESCO heritage list.
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October 26, 2024
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Fire and evacuation at night. The consequences of the Russian drone attack on a Kyiv high-rise building as seen through the lens of Konstantin and Vlada Liberov
A 14-year-old girl was killed and six people were injured in a nighttime Russian drone attack on Kyiv. Late in the evening of October 25, Kyiv came under another Russian attack with attack drones.
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October 25, 2024
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What the international press published in October? A selection of photos by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is proud of the documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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October 19, 2024
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The voice of war heard in Siena. Sergiy Korovainy won second place in the Siena Awards photo contest
Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Serhiy Korovainy won second place in the Italian Siena Awards photo contest, drawing the world's attention to the war in Donbas. His series of photographs Ground Zero Of Ukrainian War was recognized in the Storyboard category, which specializes in documentary photo stories.
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October 17, 2024
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Oleksandr Gimanov: “The first photo in a report should catch the eye, and the last one should become an exclamation point in history”
Олександр Гіманов нещодавно став членом Української асоціації професійних фотографів. Він — одеський фотокореспондент, який не лише знімає події, а й пише тексти, розповідає про свій шлях у фотографії, професійні виклики та цінність кожного кадру в часи війни. 
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October 14, 2024
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Photo series by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov won the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award
On October 11–12, the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents was presented in the French city of Bayeux. This year, among the awardees were Ukrainian photographers Kostyantyn and Vlada Liberov. Their photo series dedicated to the war in Ukraine received several prestigious honors.
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October 14, 2024
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Bombed schools, kidnapped children: how Russian propaganda covers up the Kremlin's crimes
A new school year has started in Ukraine under martial law. Only schools with shelters that meet the safety requirements of the State Emergency Service have accepted students this year.
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October 14, 2024
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“It's impossible to look at this, but everyone should see it!” Crimes of the Russian army in Izyum in the photos of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
The mutilated towns and villages of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions share a common tragedy, experienced during the occupation. After the liberation of a part of the Kharkiv region from the invading troops, mass graves and torture chambers were found on the territory from Vovchansk to Izyum.
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October 11, 2024
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Spying on the war: “Warhole” photo series by Heorhiy Ivanchenko, winner of the MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024
Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Heorhiy Ivanchenko won the MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024 photo contest with a series of images titled Warhole. This series was created through a peephole and offers a different perspective on war, leaving room for imagination and emphasizing details. In it, Ivanchenko combines documentary with artistic elements to convey the global context of war through a limited perspective.
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October 8, 2024
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Twice a day, Kharkiv is in the crosshairs. Consequences of the Russian shelling of KABs in the photos of Ivan Samoilov
On October 8, at around 5 p.m., explosions occurred in Kharkiv for the second time that day. A guided aerial bomb hit an open area near a densely populated neighborhood.
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October 4, 2024
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Rocket Attack on the village of Groza: What the Propaganda Media Reported
On October 5, 2023, the Russian army shelled the village of Hroza in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region. The strike hit a local café-store, resulting in the deaths of 59 people, including an 8-year-old boy. The Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office reported that nearly half of the local residents who remained in Hroza at that time were killed.
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October 3, 2024
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CABs in sleeping Kharkiv and evacuation in the middle of the night. The consequences of the Russian attack on the Saltovka 5-storey building in the photos of Ivan Samoilov
On the night of October 3, the Russian army attacked Kharkiv with five air bombs. According to preliminary data, these were UMPB D-30SN planning bombs. In the morning, the number of people injured in the Russian strike on Kharkiv increased to 12, including a child, said the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleg Synegubov.
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October 1, 2024
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Шість авіабомб на Запоріжжя. Наслідки російської атаки на світлинах Катерини Клочкової та Дмитра Смолієнка
Зруйнований дах, вибиті вікна й балкони житлових багатоповерхівок, розтрощені автомобілі, зламані дерева і постраждалі люди — такі наслідки чергової російської атаки по Запоріжжю. 
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September 28, 2024
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What did the international press publish in September? A selection of photos by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is proud of the documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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September 24, 2024
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“The floors of the building were destroyed from the eighth to the third.” The aftermath of the Russian shelling of Kharkiv in the photos of Georgiy Ivanchenko and Yevhen Gertner
In the afternoon of September 24, 2024, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with air strikes. Today, the targets for Russian bombs are a residential building, a bakery, and a stadium.
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September 16, 2024
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“Foreign mercenaries” in Kursk region: how Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Since the beginning of the military operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk region, Russian propaganda telegram channels and media have been actively spreading narratives about “foreign mercenaries” fighting in Kursk region. To confirm their narratives, they used photos belonging to the Forward Observations Group account on the social network Instagram.
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September 15, 2024
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A high-rise building in Kharkiv that was shot up by Russians. Photos by Heorhiy Ivanchenko and Yevhen Gertner from the scene of the tragedy
On September 15, Sunday, Russian troops hit a high-rise building in Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. The fire spread over four floors. The attack left 41 people wounded, including four children.
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September 15, 2024
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Farewell at the train station to the sounds of war. Heartbreaking footage of evacuation from Pokrovsk by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
A year ago, Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, was in a relatively safe rear area, where IDPs from frontline settlements were arriving. The city was provided with communications, shops and banks were open, and residents felt relatively safe. However, over the past six months, the situation has changed dramatically.
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September 13, 2024
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Combining art and sport: Yuriy Makalis about the photo book “Velorukh” and cycling
Yuriy Makalis is a Ukrainian photographer and cyclist, as well as a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He combines photography with military service, continuing to work on cycling-related projects even during the war. Recently, together with cycling activist, volunteer, and IT entrepreneur Maria Shevchenko, Yurii co-authored the first Ukrainian photo book about the phenomenon of cycling, Velorukh, which covers the history, present, and outstanding moments of Ukrainian cycling.
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September 9, 2024
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New UAPP member Kristina Pashkina: “My task is to show that even in the most difficult moments life goes on”
Kristina Pashkina, a documentary photographer from Kharkiv, a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, talks about her journey in photography, the challenges of war and new creative projects that reflect the life of Ukrainians in difficult times. How did her work and her own change during the full-scale invasion, and why is it important to continue telling stories through photographs?
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9.9.2024
New UAPP member Kristina Pashkina: “My task is to show that even in the most difficult moments life goes on”
Kristina Pashkina, a documentary photographer from Kharkiv, a new member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, talks about her journey in photography, the challenges of war and new creative projects that reflect the life of Ukrainians in difficult times. How did her work and her own change during the full-scale invasion, and why is it important to continue telling stories through photographs?
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September 6, 2024
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Emotional connection through art: how Canadian photographer Lesia Marushchak conveys pain and hope in her works
Through photography, installations and poetry, Canadian artist Lesja Marushchak strives to tell stories that explore trauma, collective memory and humanity, creating a space for a deep emotional connection with the viewer.
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September 6, 2024
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How Russian propaganda manipulates the topic of evacuation of Ukrainians from the frontline territories
Evacuation is a word that absorbed tears, despair, pain of separation, hope for return. It is difficult to imagine what a person feels when standing on a platform in front of an evacuation train. On June 13, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk stated that 4.6 million people have IDP status in Ukraine as of May 2024.
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September 6, 2024
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Rocket attack on the Sapphire hotel in Kramatorsk: Kremlin propaganda against journalists
A Russian missile strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk on the night of August 25 killed an employee of the British agency Reuters. Russian propagandists, trying to justify this crime, actively spread disinformation.
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September 4, 2024
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Russians strike at the historic center of lviv. How the city is recovering from the night attack
On the night of September 4, Russian troops attacked Lviv with drones and missiles. Children are among the victims. The Russians attacked the historic part of Lviv. Two districts came under attack - Frankivskyi and Zaliznychnyi.
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4.9.2024
Russians strike at the historic center of lviv. How the city is recovering from the night attack
On the night of September 4, Russian troops attacked Lviv with drones and missiles. Children are among the victims. The Russians attacked the historic part of Lviv. Two districts came under attack - Frankivskyi and Zaliznychnyi.
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September 1, 2024
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A supermarket is on fire, doctors are wounded, and people are trapped in the rubble. Russians hit Kharkiv with Iskander-M missiles
Today, on September 1, Russian troops struck three locations in the city more than 10 times: Kharkiv Sports Palace, a shopping center in the Saltivsky district, and “arrivals” near Hydropark in the Kyivsky district. Damage included a Nova Poshta office, shops, a sports complex, a shopping center, cars, and a power plant.
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August 30, 2024
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What did the international press publish in August? A selection of photos by Ukrainian photographers
Photos of members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in the international press: August's selection. UAPF is proud of the Ukrainian documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war and major events in our country.
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August 30, 2024
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A 12-story building in Kharkiv is on fire, there are victims. The consequences of the Russian shelling of the KABs through the lens of local documentary filmmakers
The bodies of the dead near the entrance, wounded children, burned cars, and a high-rise building engulfed in flames - these are the consequences of another Russian attack on Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. On August 30, in the afternoon, Russian troops carried out five aerial attacks from the Belgorod region using UMPB D-30 munitions.
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August 5, 2024
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FotoEvidence Ukraine initiative
FotoEvidence, in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), is developing a three-year program, FotoEvidence Ukraine, to support the community of Ukrainian photographers and help preserve and revive Ukrainian history and culture through the publication of photo books documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2014.
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August 28, 2024
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The exhibition “Bakhmut. Faces of Genocide 1942 | 2022” opened in Kaunas, Lithuania
On August 23, the IX Fort Museum in Kaunas hosted the opening of the exhibition “Bakhmut. Faces of the Genocide 1942 | 2022” was opened in the Museum of the IX Fort in Kaunas, which became an important event for the Lithuanian audience. Organized by the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP)
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August 27, 2024
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Regain the right to fight. Women in the army in the photo project of Marisa Myanovska
Marysya Myanovska is a new member of the UAPF, documentary and conceptual photographer. She went from fashion photography to documentary projects highlighting changes in Ukrainian society. She now explores the challenges women in the military face, highlighting their struggle for the right to fight while participating in the defense of their country. Today, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes a conversation with Marisea and her photos.
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August 27, 2024
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Ukrainian “children of war” on the cover of a book about Russia. How Bloomsbury used a photo of Ukrainian children to promote a book about “different Russians”
The full-scale war in Ukraine is covered by photographers, journalists, and documentarians from all over the world. Thousands of photos of the Russian-Ukrainian war through the eyes of foreign photojournalists can be seen in online and print editions.
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August 26, 2024
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Wounded children and burned cars. Consequences of Russian shelling of Odessa in the lens of documentarian Alexander Gimanov
On the night of August 26, the Russians began to attack Ukraine with “shaheeds”, in the morning they were joined by rockets. Explosions were heard in Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Kiev and Lviv regions. And also in Kharkiv, Lviv, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Kropyvnytskyi.
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August 25, 2024
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8 wounded in Kharkiv. Consequences of the night missile attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine in the photo of Ivan Samoilov
On August 25 at 4:08 the Russians shelled the Slobidsky district of Kharkiv. As a result of the missile attack, a two-story private house burned down, and another private house was also damaged. At 4:26 the invaders struck again on the city. Therefore, trees and shrubs with an area of 150 square meters were burned in the Industrial District.
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August 25, 2024
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The Russian army launched a ballistic missile strike on a hotel with Reuters journalists in Kramatorsk. Among them are seriously injured and missing
On the night of August 25, Russian troops hit the Sapphire hotel in Kramatorsk with an Iskander missile. Six members of the Reuters team spent the night there.
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August 20, 2024
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Tragedy in Ilovaisk: propaganda, narratives, memories, photos
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it checks the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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August 19, 2024
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Endless columns of the armed forces of ukraine are heading to kursk region. Documentarian Vyacheslav Ratinsky talks about events on the Russian-Ukrainian border
In early August 2024, columns of Ukrainian military equipment crossed the border with the Russian Federation in Sumy region. Reports of a breach of the border appeared on August 6, 2024 in the Kremlin media, which claimed that the Armed Forces entered the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region.
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August 10, 2024
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Russian artillery hit a supermarket in Kostyantynivka. Tragedy in the photos of Serhiy Nuzhnenko and Roman Pylypiy
On August 9, around 11:05 the Russian army shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk region from barrel artillery. The Russians hit a local supermarket. The number of victims of the Russian air strike in Konstantinovka reached 14 people. 44 people were wounded. This was reported in the Attorney General's Office.
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August 7, 2024
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Ukraine War Archive and UAPP cooperation: opportunities for the community
In January, we signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Ukraine War Archive platform, an informational non-profit organization that brings together all forms of digital materials collected since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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August 7, 2024
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Shelling of a pizzeria in Kramatorsk: How Russian propaganda turns frontline cities into “legitimate military targets”
Kramatorsk, June 27, 2023. 18 minutes after the air alarm went off, a summer evening is interrupted by an explosion in the heart of the city. Russian rocket “Iskander” hits a pizzeria where there were full of visitors. Rescuers, municipal workers, military and civilians rush to free survivors from under the rubble.
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August 3, 2024
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Maxim Dondyuk: “I'm filming what the future of humanity will be like if we don't stop fighting”
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been filming the war since 2014. He visited the hottest spots, in particular the Ilovai boiler. At the beginning of the full-scale war, he documented the battles in the Kiev region, and his photos are published by the leading publications of the world. Maxim Dondyuk works on long-term author's projects, which are personal reflections on the war in Ukraine. Maxim talked about the creation of photos from the new “White series”.
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3.8.2024
Maxim Dondyuk: “I'm filming what the future of humanity will be like if we don't stop fighting”
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been filming the war since 2014. He visited the hottest spots, in particular the Ilovai boiler. At the beginning of the full-scale war, he documented the battles in the Kiev region, and his photos are published by the leading publications of the world. Maxim Dondyuk works on long-term author's projects, which are personal reflections on the war in Ukraine. Maxim talked about the creation of photos from the new “White series”.
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August 3, 2024
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Photo contests in August, which are worth applying for
Professionals and amateurs have the opportunity to receive awards in photo competitions by presenting their conceptual and documentary photos. The traditional selection of August from the UAPP:
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August 1, 2024
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Opportunity for UAPP members: free posting of works for sale to collectors through the YourDailyPhotograph.com platform
We are pleased to announce an exclusive opportunity for UAPP members to submit up to 3 works of the art genre for sale among YourDailyPhotograph.com collectors by August 12, 2024.
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August 2, 2024
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UAPP Microgrant and Mentorship Program to Support Ukrainian Photographers
From September 2024 to March 2025, and on an annual basis, we will conduct a comprehensive mentoring and microgrant program for young Ukrainian photographers, focusing on the development of quality photographic education in Ukraine, forming a professional community and promoting dialogue between authors of different generations.
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July 30, 2024
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“We decided to continue the operation, despite the air alert.” How Ukrainian Documentaries Help Refute Russia's “Bloody Fakes”
Russia does not abandon its attempts to disclaim responsibility for the rocket attack on the children's hospital “Okhmatdyt”. This time, Russian propaganda spreads fakes about a doctor in a bloody white robe, photos of which were widely circulated by the world media.
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July 27, 2024
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What did the international press publish in July? A selection of photos of Ukrainian documentarians
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers is proud of the documentary filmmakers whose photos represent their native country in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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July 25, 2024
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Opportunities for the community: three trainings on tactical medicine in Dnipro, Odessa and Kharkiv
In August, RSF organizes 3 HEFAT Refresher trainings in Dnipro, Odessa and Kharkiv. These trainings are intended for journalists, media workers and freelancers and aim to renew or deepen knowledge and practice in physical safety and first aid.
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July 24, 2024
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Six times a day the Russians shelled Kharkiv. Consequences of the enemy attack on the photo of Eugene Gertner
The Russians dropped a guided air bomb on the central part of Kharkov. On July 24 at 16:47 Russian troops attacked Kharkiv for the sixth time. Two people were injured as a result of an attack on a private house in Kharkiv. Rescuers and medics are working at the scene. This was announced by the mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov.
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July 23, 2024
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MH17: Fakes and Narratives of Russian Propaganda
An international investigation has found that the Boeing 777 of MH17 Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight, where all 298 passengers were killed, was shot down by a Russian-made Buk anti-aircraft missile system. But Russia continues to manipulate the issue, blaming Ukraine.
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July 20, 2024
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Hit in a dugout. Ukrainian photographer Olga Kovalyova was wounded in Donetsk region
Documenting the Russian-Ukrainian war, two Kharkiv photographers — Olga Kovalyova, project manager of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, and Vladislav Krasnoshchuk — came under enemy artillery fire on July 19, 2024, near the front line in the Toretsky area in the Donetsk region.
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July 19, 2024
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Two “Iskanders” in the center of Chuhuiv. The consequences of Russian rocket fire in the lens of Yevgeny Gertner
In the morning of July 19, Russian forces hit two Iskander missiles on the central part of Chuguev, Kharkiv region. As a result of the enemy air attack, 9 people were injured. Among them is a teenager. This is reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Synegubov.
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July 18, 2024
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Shield city or the next “fortress” of the Chasovyi Yar on the photos of Ukrainian documentarians
Chasiv Yar is a city that has been stormed and shelled for months by occupation forces. The invaders continue to intensively burn Chasiv Yar, embodying scorched earth tactics. For more than two and a half years, Russian troops have been trying at any cost to capture the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, which became the front line after the capture of Bakhmut.
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July 18, 2024
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The world of contemporary Ukrainian photo art in the new book MYPH and CREATIVE PUBLISHING
Creative Publishing House and Mykolaiv School of Conceptual and Art Photography MYPH have jointly prepared a photo book “Conceptual Photography”. The aim is to inform the domestic and international audience about contemporary conceptual photography in Ukraine, demonstrating the work of its brightest representatives. The authors of the book are Lucia Bondar, Creative Publishing, and Sergey Melnychenko, photographer, founder of the school of conceptual and art photography MYPH.
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July 17, 2024
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“Stronger than bombs.” UAPP with German partners organizes photo exhibition in Dresden on destruction of cultural heritage of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work actively abroad on various international projects, representing and promoting authors from Ukraine.
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July 16, 2024
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Mass death of people in Odesa. The confrontation between the participants of the “Euromaidan” and the pro-Russian “Anti-Maidan” in the photos of Oleg Kutsky
On May 2, 2014, in Odessa on Greek Square and Kulikovo Field, there were mass clashes between Euromaidan supporters and participants of the Maidan action and a fire broke out in the House of Trade Unions. At that time, 48 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.
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July 11, 2024
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Military Departments or Children's Hospital: Ukrainian Photographers' Images in Russian Propaganda Materials
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it checks the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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July 3, 2024
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“I need this flag because half my village is Orcs.” How Russian Propaganda Violates Copyright
Violating copyright, Russian media used a photo of Yulia Kochetova with a flag, illustrating the material “Dirt money, or how NATO will fight for black transplantation in Ukraine” and pointed to the author of the photo Russian drains.
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July 4, 2024
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The battles for Karachun and Savur Mohyla, or Where the fighting for Donbas began. Hot summer 2014 in the lens of Oleksandr Klymenko
On April 13, 2014, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine began a large-scale anti-terrorist operation, which eventually turned into a war against the Russian army. The battles for Karachun and the battles for Savur-Mohyla went down in history as one of the bloodiest battles in Donbas at the beginning of the ATO.
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July 8, 2024
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“Children were targeted on purpose.” Ruins of Kyiv's “Okhmatdyt” after Russian missiles in documentarists' photos
Wounded children, frightened adults, white medical robes covered in blood — these are the consequences of another Russian combined attack against Ukrainians. In the morning of July 8, Russian troops launched a rocket attack on Kiev, the largest children's hospital in Ukraine “Okhmatdyt” came under enemy attack.
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July 3, 2024
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About 10 explosions in Dnipro: the consequences of the Russian combined attack in the lens of Nikolay Sinelnikov
On Wednesday morning, July 3, the Russians carried out a combined attack on the Dnieper. There were about 10 explosions in the city. At approximately 8:45 a.m., the Air Force of the Armed Forces reported the movement of enemy drones in the direction of the Dnieper. In a few minutes, missiles flew in the direction of the city.
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June 30, 2024
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“Employees were unloading parcels.” The aftermath of the Russian air strike on “Nova Poshta” in Kharkiv in the photo of Yakov Lyashenko and Olga Kovalyova
On June 30, around 16:30 Russian troops again launched an air strike on Kharkov. The CAB flew about 80 kilometers and hit a few meters from the premises of “Nova Poshta” in the Slobidsky district of the city.
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June 30, 2024
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“Hungry. Exhausted. Happy.” Photographers Konstantin and Vlada Liberov showed in what condition Ukrainians are returning from Russian captivity
On June 25, another 90 Ukrainians returned home from Russian captivity: 32 National Guardsmen, 18 border guards, 17 representatives of the Navy, 15 soldiers of the Armed Forces, 8 terrorists. Among them — 59 defenders of Mariupol, 52 of whom left Azovstal. Also, 5 fighters of the NGU, who at the beginning of the invasion guarded the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, set foot on their native land.
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February 10, 2024
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Mykolaiv School of Photography MYPH: from conceptual to documentary images
MYPH, a well-known school of conceptual and art photography in the South of Ukraine, was founded by Serhiy Melnychenko in his hometown Mykolaiv. The training aims to promote and understand contemporary conceptual and artistic photography among artists.
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February 22, 2024
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The camera as a weapon: the stories of photographers who joined the army
What made photographers join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? How has the photo changed, and they themselves, since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine? What did I have to give up and what to get used to? We talk with photographers Valentin Kuzan, Oleg Palchik and Sergey Mikhalchuk.
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June 30, 2024
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What did the international press publish in June? A selection of photos by Ukrainian photographers
Photos of members of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers in the international press: June's selection. UAPF is proud of the Ukrainian documentary photographers whose photos represent Ukraine in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war and major events in our country.
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June 29, 2024
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The consequences of the missile strike on the Dnipro in the photo of Mykola Sinelnikov
A damaged high-rise building, one dead, injured people, among the victims is a baby. Such are the consequences of the Russian missile attack on the Dnieper on Friday, June 28. Rescuers spent the night dismantling the rubble of a destroyed high-rise building.
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June 28, 2024
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Zelensky awarded five photographers with state orders
President Volodymyr Zelensky honored Ukrainian media with state awards, including five photographers. The relevant decree №383/2024 was published on the website of the Head of State on the occasion of the Constitution Day of Ukraine.
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June 28, 2024
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The exhibition “Brave to Bring Light” was held in The Hague, Netherlands
Cultural diplomacy is an important tool for building international relations, promoting mutual understanding and strengthening cultural ties between countries. One of the striking examples of such diplomacy is the presentation of a photobook about the most difficult winter in the history of independent Ukraine “Dare to bear light” in The Hague.
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June 27, 2024
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Murder of the “first cyborg” in Kyiv. Explosion of the car of the commander of special intelligence officers Maxim Shapoval in the photos of Serhiy Nuzhnenko
On June 27, 2017, around 8 am, the commander of one of the special purpose units of the Main Intelligence Directorate Maxim Shapoval died. His car exploded at the intersection of Solomenskaya and Mechanisatorov streets. The murder was classified as a terrorist act.
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June 27, 2024
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The hottest spot on the map. Avdeivska industrial zone in the photos of the documentarian Oleksandr Klymenko
On January 30, 2017, the Armed Forces took control of the Avdeyev industrial zone, knocking out the Russians from there. The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes photos of photojournalist Oleksandr Klymenko, who documented the stay of Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka industrial zone.
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June 27, 2024
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Tired soldiers and a green corridor under fire. The withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Debaltsev in the lens of Oleksandr Klymenko
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes photos of photojournalist Oleksandr Klymenko, who documented the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Debaltsev after heavy fighting.
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June 27, 2024
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Seven days and nights of fighting for “Diamond-2" continued in Avdiivka. The consequences of the battle in the photographs of the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Klymenko
On the morning of January 31, 2017, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the stronghold of the militants “Almaz-2” in Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region. The position was strategically important in the overall defense system of the country, as it allowed to control the roads Donetsk-Luhansk and Donetsk-Horlivka.
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June 26, 2024
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Mstyslav Chernov was invited to become a member of the jury of the Oscar film award
The founder of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, BAFTA winner and Oscar winner, director of the documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol” Mstyslav Chernov was invited to the jury of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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April 4, 2024
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WEYUAPP: Europe through the eyes of Ukrainians
WEYUAPP is an art project created by Italian photographer Lisa Borgiani in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP). The project is a continuation of the series “What does Europe mean to you?” (WEY), which explores the sense of European identity through the personal histories and visual images of residents of European countries.
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April 12, 2024
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Ukrainian House presented the album “FLASH. Ukrainian Photography 2022-2023”
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.
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April 14, 2024
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Panoramic pictures of the war of Dmytro Malyshev
Dmytro Malyshev is a photographer, recently a member of the UAFF, who has been engaged in panoramic photography for more than 10 years. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry has documented the consequences of Russian crimes in VR format. By this time he had taken more than 1700 panoramic photographs in more than 30 settlements.
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May 2, 2024
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Life as a Deadline: 10 Years of War in the Photos of Olexandr Klymenko
Oleksandr Klymenko is a photojournalist who, even before the beginning of independence, began filming the main events in Ukraine. In addition, he has repeatedly covered armed conflicts in different countries of the world. However, in 2014, he had to put on an armored vest and go with his camera to the war in his country. In the spring of 2024, it will be 10 years since the Russians tried to destroy Ukraine.
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May 12, 2024
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“These are the people we will thank for a long time to come.” Photographer Sasha Maslov about the photo book “SAINTS” and its heroes
Ukrainian-American photographer from Kharkiv, UAPP participant Sasha Maslov together with the Canadian-Ukrainian project Saint Javelin presented the photobook “SAINTS” (translated from English — “saints” — ed.). This is a publication about the personal sacrifice of people who decided to resist the brutal Russian invasion, which the whole world has been watching since February 24, 2024 until now.
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News Stories
May 19, 2024
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Forbidden and wounded Kherson region of photographer Ivan Antipenko
Ivan Antipenko is a Ukrainian journalist, photographer and videographer who mostly covers the Russian-Ukrainian war in the South of Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russians came to his home, in his hometown of Kherson. On November 13, he returned home, but under shelling and in the water he continues his work. We talk to Ivan Antipenko about favorite destroyed places in Kherson, about occupation and liberation, about flooding and shelling, about the ban and permits for filming.
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News Stories
May 29, 2024
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Love for black and white film pictures of Kharkiv photographer Vladislav Krasnoshchek
Capture, display, print and scan — this is the process of film shots of Kharkiv artist, photographer, doctor Vladislav Krasnoshok. It captures the Russian-Ukrainian war, its consequences, its tragedies and its heroes in black and white pictures. About photos, their meaning and approach to work — we talk with Vladislav.
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News Stories
June 11, 2024
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The kremlins narratives. Russia continues to justify shelling of civilian facilities with fakes about the location of Ukrainian military
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it will check the authenticity of certain manipulations of information, referring to the original source.
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News Stories
June 11, 2024
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How the Russians tried to justify the attack on the Kharkiv “Epicenter” in TikTok
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers continues to work on the rubric “Is it really?”, where it will verify the authenticity of certain manipulations of information by contacting the original source and communicating with eyewitnesses.
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News Stories
April 20, 2024
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How Nikolaev photographer Serhiy Melnichenko implements a grant project for €50 000 “Under the Dnipro”
The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation from Munich, which supports modern art and natural sciences, provided Nikolaev photographer, founder of the school of conceptual and art photography “MYPH”, UAP participant Sergey Melnychenko a scholarship in the amount of 50 thousand euros for the realization of the photo project “Under the Dnipro".
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News Stories
April 29, 2024
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The front line is 7 kilometers away. How Russians are trying to destroy Toretsk, and Ukrainians are trying to defend it
Toretsk is a city in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk region, located about 7 kilometers from the contact line. Every day, the occupiers shell Toretsk, like every Ukrainian frontline settlement. In 2014, Dzerzhinsk, and now decommunized Toretsk, was a typical mining town among the Terikons. Until recently, one of the mines was called “Holy Matrona of Moscow”, now it is abbreviated as “Holy Matron”.
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News Stories
April 27, 2024
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What did the international press publish in April? A selection of photos by Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
American, British, Chinese, Italian, and Australian media published photos by Ukrainian photographers in April. UAPF is proud of the documentary photographers whose photos represent their country in the international media and once again draw attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Grant
4.12.2024
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December opportunities
A global award for professional and amateur photographers. Every year, thousands of applications from more than 120 countries are submitted to the competition. Entries are accepted in 13 categories, including Architecture, Books, People, Editorship, and Art Photography.
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Grant
2.11.2024
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Можливості листопада
Медіа «ТиКиїв» запускає конкурс «Ти та Київ» для підтримки українських фотографів. Програма передбачає фінансову і менторську допомогу, аби надихнути митців створювати унікальні роботи. Переможці отримають грошові призи: 50 000 грн за перше місце та по 10 000 грн за друге і третє місця.
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Grant
1.9.2024
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МОЖЛИВОСТІ ВЕРЕСНЯ
Професіонали й аматори мають можливість отримати нагороди у фотоконкурсах, представляючи свої концептуальні та документальні світлини. Традиційна підбірка вересня від УАПФ:
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Grant
1.8.2024
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Фотоконкурси серпня, на які варто подати заявки
Професіонали й аматори мають можливість отримати нагороди у фотоконкурсах, представляючи свої концептуальні та документальні світлини. Традиційна підбірка серпня від УАПФ:
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Grant
1.7.2024
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Можливості липня: гранти та конкурси, на які варто подати заявки
Грант на проєкт, який документує війну, премія для незалежних журналістів, а також можливість реалізувати власний фотопроєкт про Київ — зберігайте липневу підбірку можливостей.
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Grant
1.6.2024
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Фотоконкурси та гранти: що не варто упускати у червні
Усі, хто документує війну, піклується про екологію чи захоплюється чорно-білими знімками — зберігайте червневу підбірку можливостей.
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Grant
7.9.2024
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Fine Art Photography Awards
Мистецтво народжується з пристрасті. Художня фотографія — досконалий інструмент, який дозволяє людині спілкуватися зі світом і ділитися своїм баченням. Вона є результатом глибокої чутливості автора, потреби виразити почуття через зображення, унікального погляду на навколишню дійсність. Це може бути спонтанним, але може бути і свідомим та цілеспрямованим маніфестом. FAPA шукає фотографії, народжені пристрастю — вашою пристрастю.
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Grant
7.9.2024
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Mobile Photography Awards
$10,000 призовій фонд: $3000 Гран-прі, $250 для кожного з наших переможців у категоріях і багато іншого!
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Grant
6.9.2024
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Tokyo International Foto Awards
Tokyo International Foto Awards заохочує всіх фотографів брати участь у фотоконкурсі TIFA. Поділіться своїми унікальними талантами зі світом і виграйте призи, нагороди та визнання.
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Grant
6.9.2024
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The W. Eugene Smith Grant
Одна з найпрестижніших грантових програм для фотографів — імені американського фотоесеїста Вільяма Юджина Сміта, який висвітлював Другу світову війну і приєднався до агентства Magnum. Щоб подати заявку, потрібно відправити біографію та резюме (до двох сторінок), опис проєкту і до 40 своїх знімків. 
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Grant
6.9.2024
The W. Eugene Smith Grant
Одна з найпрестижніших грантових програм для фотографів — імені американського фотоесеїста Вільяма Юджина Сміта, який висвітлював Другу світову війну і приєднався до агентства Magnum. Щоб подати заявку, потрібно відправити біографію та резюме (до двох сторінок), опис проєкту і до 40 своїх знімків. 
Grant
7.9.2024
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2024 Lucie Scholarship Program
Lucie Foundation підтримує широкий спектр форматів: від образотворчого мистецтва до документального кіно та фотожурналістики. 
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Grant
6.9.2024
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Тренінги HEFAT Refresher у Києві від RSF
У вересні та жовтні RSF організовує 2 нові тренінги HEFAT Refresher у Києві.
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Grant
1.3.2024
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PhotoVogue Grants for Photographers
Конкурс PhotoVogue 2024 запрошує митців з усього світу поділитися роботами, які прославляють красу та стійкість природи.
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Grant
1.3.2024
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World Report Award | Documenting Humanity 2024
Нагорода World Report Award|Documenting Humanity спрямована на нову форму соціальної відповідальності через фотографію. Премія відкрита як для професійних фотографів, так і для фотографів-аматорів з усього світу.
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Grant
1.3.2024
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Viviane Esders Prize – Europe
Премія Вівіан Есдерс присуджується фотографу, який працює понад 40 років, має особистий стиль та художній підхід.
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Grant
31.3.2024
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«Sharing Future» Artist in Residence Scholarship 2024
Гасло стипендії «Sharing Future» спрямоване на спільне створення та співпрацю для спільної Європи та спільного майбутнього.
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Grant
1.4.2024
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Конкурс стипендій для відеоблогерів, що сприяють зміцненню української ідентичності
Результати будуть оголошені не пізніше 13 травня 2024 року.
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Grant
30.3.2024
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Nikon Small World Prize
Конкурс фотомікрографії Nikon "Маленький світ" відкритий для всіх, хто цікавиться мікроскопією та фотографією через мікроскоп. На конкурс відеоробіт під назвою "Маленький світ у русі" приймаються будь-які відео- або цифрові фотографії, зняті через мікроскоп у режимі сповільненої зйомки.
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Grant
1.4.2024
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Canon Video Grant — Short Film Documentary
Canon разом із Міжнародним фестивалем фотожурналістики Visa pour l’Image-Perpignan надають грант у розмірі 8 000 євро плюс використання новаторського професійного відеообладнання Canon (в оренду) для створення 8-хвилинного документального фільму на соціальну, політичну чи культурну тематику.
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Grant
1.3.2024
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Beyond the Silence project
Міжнародна фотоагенція Magnum Photos та освітня платформа Odesa Photo Days оголосили open call «Beyond the Silence». Мета проєкту створити діалог між фотографами з різних країн, висвітлюючи спільний досвід і спільні виклики.
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Grant
1.4.2024
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Грантова програма Talents for Ukraine
Програма відкрита для мрійників і новаторів, які своїми ідеями змінюють життя інших. Бюджет — $ 1 000 000.
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Grant
1.4.2024
Грантова програма Talents for Ukraine
Програма відкрита для мрійників і новаторів, які своїми ідеями змінюють життя інших. Бюджет — $ 1 000 000.
Grant
30.4.2024
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Global Peace Photo Award
Фотоконкурс, присвячений пам’яті австрійського журналіста і пацифіста, лауреата Нобелівської премії миру Альфреда Фріда. До участі приймаються роботи професійних фотографів, присвячені рухам за мир та ідеї безконфліктного майбутнього.
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Grant
1.5.2024
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Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award
Нагорода "Байо Кальвадос-Нормандія" для військових кореспондентів присуджується за репортажі про конфліктну ситуацію або її вплив на цивільне населення, а також за новини, пов'язані із захистом свободи і демократії.
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Grant
1.5.2024
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Фонд Курта Шорка (KSMF)
Меморіальний фонд Курта Шорка (KSMF) приймає заявки на здобуття премії в галузі міжнародної журналістики за 2024 рік. Вже 23-й рік поспіль ця премія вшановує пам'ять американського журналіста-фрілансера Курта Шорка, який загинув у 2000 році під час роботи в Сьєрра-Леоне для агентства Reuters, і відзначає видатні досягнення у сміливому висвітленні конфліктів, корупції, несправедливості та порушень прав людини.
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Grant
1.5.2024
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Women Photograph Project Grants
Ці гранти у розмірі $5,000 будуть спрямовані на підтримку фотопроєктів - як нових, так і тих, що вже реалізуються - візуальних журналістів, які працюють у сфері документалістики. Доступно п'ять грантів, принаймні один з яких буде призначений для небінарного або трансгендерного фотографа. Фінансування може бути використане для покриття основних витрат на репортаж, творчих гонорарів фотографів і будь-яких інших витрат, що сприяють створенню нових робіт.
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Grant
1.5.2024
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Стипендіальна програма від Фундації польсько-німецької співпраці
Податись можуть українські журналісти, воєнкори та фотографи, що базуються в Україні та висвітлюють події, пов’язані з повномасштабним вторгненням Росії. У заявці треба надати короткий та розлогий опис вашого проєкту та бюджет на його втілення, який покриє ця сума.
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Grant
3.6.2024
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HARIBAN AWARD — International Collotype Competition 2024
Премія Hariban Award, заснована компанією Benrido, поєднує 170-річну аналогову техніку з сучасною фотографією. Скляні пластини використовувалися як основа для друкарських форм для колотипного друку, що продовжується і сьогодні. Нагорода називається «Харібан», оскільки «Харі» означає скляна пластина, а «бан» - друкарська форма в японській мові.
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Grant
3.6.2024
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Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants
Гранти Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants для позитивних змін нашої планети.
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Grant
7.6.2024
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Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant
Грант Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant — це міжнародний фотоконкурс для молодих фотографів віком до 24 років або тих, хто навчається на денному курсі фотографії. Учасники повинні подати портфоліо з 12 фотографій і чітку пропозицію проєкту.
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Grant
1.6.2024
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Ukrainian Warchive
Відкрито прийом заявок на грантову підтримку від Ukrainian Warchive для українських фотографів та фотографок, що документують життя під час війни Росії проти України. Програма націлена на вже розпочаті документальні та художні проєкти. На конкурсних засадах команда архіву відбере пʼять авторів, які отримають грант у розмірі 1000 євро.
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