Says Evgeniy: The Green City is my ongoing project, in which I explore the rapid urbanization of Kiev and the ever-changing physical landscape of the city. Like any capital, Kiev lures people from all over Ukraine: here, in comparison with other cities, wages are way higher and there are more...
Andrii Dostliev: Fairy Castles of Donetsk
Says Andrii: Remember how in the nineties we had cockroaches at home, and when you lit the stove the floor turned red from them? I once stole money that you were saving up for winter boots and bought Snickers bars for all my friends, and then was too scared to...
Marek M Berezowski: Brother’s Tears. Telling The War in Donbass.
This photographic project explores the issue of the long-term impact of war and propaganda on the daily lives of civilians in the Donbass warzone. It is a comprehensive attempt at recording the changes taking place in society in the warzone. Only 20 minutes away from the coffee shops in the...
Alena Grom: Hypoxia
Project "Hypoxia" is dedicated to internally displaced people in Ukraine. These people transmigrated from a military zone and people that remained in a military zone. Alena Grom - b. 1974 in the city of Donetsk. 2005-2008 Computer Academy as web designer. Studied, printing, design, graphics, 3d graphics, animation, flash video...
David Denil: Let Us Not Fall Asleep While Walking
In 1991, Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in the aftermath of its dissolution at the end of the Cold War. Following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. In 2013, protests against the government of President Yanukovych broke out in downtown Kiev after the government made the...
Natascia Aquilano: Sons of Maidan
Ukraine's eastern periphery is today nothing more than a heap of destroyed buildings, where people live daily with the roar of mortars and exploding grenades because of the conflict started in 2014 in Maidan Square that still continues to hurt the nation. About her project "Sons of Maidan" says Natascia:...
Stefano Stranges: The Two Faces of the Rebellion
Ukraine, 2014. A country divided by internal tensions between those who look up to Europe and those who still feel a strong legacy (and attraction) to the neighboring former Soviet power, a country subject to international political pressure and torn in the east by a war more and more painful....
Pierpaolo Mittica: Chernobyl 30 Years After
On April 26, 1986 at 1:24 a.m. a disastrous event occurred, the worst technological catastrophe of the modern age, which blighted the lives of millions of people. That night reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded. The explosion unleashed tons of radioactive dust into the air, where,...
Interview with documentary photographer Robin Hinsch
Robin Hinsch was born in 1987. He studied Photography at the HFG-Karlsruhe in the Class of Prof. Elger Esser, at the HH-Hannover and at the HAW Hamburg in the Class of Prof. Vincent Kohlbecher where he earned his BA in Photography. Currently Robin Hinsch continues his studies at the HAW...
Robin Hinsch: Kowitsch
In the series Kowitsch, compiled over the past two years as a work in progress, Robin Hinsch arranges large-format color photographs — portraits and landscapes — in an uneven rhythm to compose an extraordinary series about the conflict in Ukraine. Born in 1987 in Winsen/Luhe (North-Germany), Robin Hinsch spent a...