The exhibition project was implemented by the National Center “Ukrainian House” and NGO “Platform of 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.

The war in Ukraine actualized primarily those types of art and tools that are capable of instantly reflecting reality. Among them is photography, which has become the main medium, reflecting the events of the war and highlighting the diversity of experiences and the present of Ukrainians. This experience cannot be put into words, but it can be lived thanks to frozen images that break out of reality with the shutter of the camera. Of particular importance in the process of reflection of the hot stream of events is the document, report, chronicle. The merciless truth of the cold lens revives the sensual gaze of the artist. It is he who transforms a direct fixation into an exciting image that has a great power of aesthetic impact and creates a space for empathy.

Working in the field of history is a challenge. Today, the works of photographers have become part of an information war, a war of images and narratives, where they are forced to confront artificially generated fakes. After all, it is photography that is one of the influential tools that bring this truth of war to the world and give Ukraine solidarity and support.

Participants, expositions:
Taras Bychko, Vera Blansh, Andriy Boyko, Roman Bordun, Elizaveta Bukreeva, Valery Veduta, Alexander Gladielov, Serhiy Gudak, Bohdan Gulyay, Artem Gumilevsky, Olena Grom, Oleg Dimov, Maksym Dondyuk, Pavlo Dorogoy, Olga Drozd, Yurko Dyachishin, Igor Yefimov, Yevhenii Zavgorodniy, Pavel Itkin, Anya Kisla, Kirill Kovalenko, Dmitry Kozatsky, Vladislav Krasnoshchuk, Zhenya Laptiy, Dmitry Lobko, Yefko Frem Lukatsky, Kseniya Marchenko, Pavlo Mazai, Serhiy Melnychenko, Vira Minaylo, Serhiy Mikhalchuk, Stanislav Ostrous, Mykhailo Palinchak, Yulia Po, Tatiana Ruda, Yana Sidash, Konstantin Sova, Bronislav Tutelman, Maksym Finogeev, Nazar Furyk, Alexey Furman, Petro Chekal, Igor Chekachkov, Alexander Chekmenev, Vladimir Cheppel, Gennady Chernega, Mstislav Chernov, Julie Poly.