For the Ukraine-born, Brazil-based artist, photography provides a mechanism to confront past traumas

For the Ukraine-born, Brazil-based artist, photography provides a mechanism to confront past traumas
To coincide with Female in Focus 2021, Kateryna Radchenko, founder and curator of Ukraine’s only contemporary photography festival, discusses Ukrainian women’s contribution to the medium in the context of the country’s cultural and historical tensions
Lupu’s ethereal images straddle fantasy and reality, capturing the liminality of an increasingly online world
Now in its third year, the Ukraine-Based photography festival has moved out of the gallery and into the city itself amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The Ukranian photographer spent two years smuggling found images out of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Now, he presents them in a virtual gallery
“There is nothing worse than war – both sides always lose,” says the Ukrainian photographer, whose documentation of the Euromaidan protests is now published in a photobook
In his first major solo show, Christopher Nunn offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine: “It was very real, people were dying and the region was fractured”
Publications we loved, and the big news stories from the last month in photobooks – including the nominees from the 2019 Mack First Book Award and an interview with photobook collector extraordinaire Manfred Heiting
If you wanted to become a professional photographer in the Soviet Union, says Victor Kochetov, you only had two options. Either you could work at an atelier producing pictures for books or postcards, or you could work for the press – and both meant conforming to the ideological pressure of the state. Kochetov chose the first option, and through the 1960s he worked as a commercial photographer in Kharkiv, Ukraine, photographing events such as weddings and funerals, and providing images for books on travel.