Ukraine: War and Resistance
Photo Exhibition
of American and Ukrainian Photographers, Alumni of the Fulbright Academic Exchange Program
24 April – 24 May 2024
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About This Project
The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious exchange programs in the world. It is operated by the U.S. Department of State in partnership with more than 160 countries worldwide and provides scientific, educational, and cultural exchanges. Established in 1946 on the initiative of Senator J. William Fulbright from the state of Arkansas, it seeks to increase mutual understanding between countries through international exchanges in order to avoid wars and human suffering.
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People gather on escalators in an underground metro station
The village of Bohorodychne
Men catching a frightened cat
Bullet holes riddle the door of this man’s garage
A Ukrainian soldier walks into the sunflowers fields
Sofia Chyhyryn and Vadym Beilakh, 19
A Girl on a Swing
Maidan Nezalezhnosti
Military volunteers
A short break in the volunteer hub
A Ukrainian paramedic team cleans up the ambulance
Yulya “Valkyria” Tolopa, UAF soldier
Stress temporarily overcomes
Ukrainian refugee Olha
Sandbags protection
Kateryna plays with Dominika
Aerial view
The destroyed Irpin Bridge
Rescue workers
Remains…
Dismantling rubble
AN-225 Mriya
A Russian artillery shell explodes
Cars lighting the way without streetlights
Bullet holes
A fresh crater
“If I was not a patriot…”
Viacheslav Buinovsky, 41
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers
Aerial view of a forest laden
Mother drapes a coffin
Pavlo, 5 years old
Maryna Ponomariova, 6
Destroyed Russian military equipment
An explosive “trap”
Blood Moon
2014 ATO volunteer soldiers
Ukrainian soldiers
Burnt Russian tank
Ammunition crates
Dog saved from the flood
A flooded neighborhood
HIMARS
Ukrainian volunteer
Road blockade
Ilyich Iron and Steel plant
Coal mine near Toretsk
Graves for soldiers
Maidan Nezalezhnosti square
Svitlana Nazarenko with her son
Colored smoke from signal flares
With the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainians and Americans, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events equipped with their own weapons of defense: knowledge and a camera. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
Thanks to the joint initiative of the Fulbright Academic Exchange Program in Ukraine, the Institute of International Education – Kyiv Office, the Bulgarian – American Fulbright Commission and the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, photos from the exhibition Ukraine: War and Resistance were presented at “Sredets” Gallery, from February 20 till March 1, 2024.
The second stop of the traveling project in Bulgaria was Peyo Yavorov Regional Library in Burgas where the exhibition was presented from 5 March to 5 April 2024.
From 24 April to 24 May the exhibition can be seen at the Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis in Plovdiv.
“An avenue of hope” even in darker times
Ukraine: War and Resistance presents the works of Fulbrighters J.T. Blatty, Oleksii Furman, Brendan Hoffman, Serhii Korovayny, Joseph Sywenkyj, Emine Ziyatdinova, and Oksana Parafeniuk, a former employee of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine.
This is a selection of photos taken in different timeframes of the Russian-Ukrainian war, reflecting diverse aspects and dimensions. Most of the photographs were taken after the Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, yet some date as early as 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula.
As Ukraine fights to resist aggression and shape its own future, the images of this struggle enter the space of our awareness. In the spirit of the Fulbright program, the exchange of views remains a humanizing agency and an “avenue of hope”, even in darker times.
Location
You are welcome to visit the exhibition from 24 April to 24 May 2024 at the Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis in Plovdiv.
About the authors
J. T. Blatty
U.S. combat veteran J. T. Blatty (West Point, NY 2000) is a documentary photojournalist and the author of Snapshots Sent Home: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine (Publication Feb 20, 2024, Elva Resa), a military memoir. Since early 2018, she has been documenting the war in eastern Ukraine while simultaneously creating photographic/audio archive of the 2014 volunteer soldiers of the Donbas. More Details
Oleksii Furman
Oleksii Furman is a Ukrainian visual storyteller, University of Missouri almnus and co-founder of New Cave Media, an immersive storytelling studio based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He covered the Ukrainian revolution of 2013-14, the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing war in East Ukraine. More Details
Brendan Hoffman
Brendan Hoffman (b. 1980, Albany, NY, USA) is a documentary photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where his work reflects his interest in themes of identity, history, politics, conflict and the environment. Since 2013 he has primarily covered revolution and war in Ukraine. More Details
Serhii Korovayny
Serhii Korovayny is an editorial and portrait photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He covers the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russian war crimes in Ukraine, environmental issues, the refugee crisis, healthcare topics, etc. As a photojournaist, Korovayny worked with Ukrainian and international media, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post etc. More Details
Joseph Sywenkyj
Joseph Sywenkyj is an American photographer of Ukrainian descent. Among his many awards, he was the recipient of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photogrphy. Most recently he received the Aftermath Project Grant. More Details
Oksana Parafeniuk
Oksana Parafeniuk is an independent Ukrainian photojournalist. She has worked with many international organizations and publictaions, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, Rest of World, MSF, Save the Children etc. More Details
Emine Ziyatdinova
A Ukrainian documentary photographer, independent media consultant and sociologist of Crimean Tatar descent, Emine Ziyatdinova was born in Uzbekistan, where her family, along with entire Crimean Tatar population, was deported by the Soviet regime in 1944. She graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with an MA degree in sociology. More Details
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