“The stories and testimonies in this book are not only photographs. They are beautiful, brutal, present, and personal — photographic adjectives, filled with content that is deeper and more relevant than most news photography can ever hope to be. But, perhaps most importantly, they are historical documents, visual evidence to be presented in a future where the fog of war has cleared, and justice once again prevails”, wrote Swedish photojournalist Paul Hansen in the book's foreword.
The photographers and projects presented in the book:
Julia Kochetova — War is Personal
Yana Kononova — Radiations of War
Evgeniy Maloletka — The Siege of Mariupol
Lisa Bukreyeva — Do Not Look at the Pain of Others
Roman Pashkovskiy — The Torture Rooms
Alena Grom — This Mad, Mad World
Sergii Polezhaka — Naїve Ukrainian Gardens
Dmytro Kozatskyi — Azovstal
Olexander Glyadyelov — War
Viacheslav Ratynskyi — New Ordinary?
Roman Bordun — Let’s Keep it for Better Times
All of the photographs presented here are part of the Ukrainian Warchive, a digital archive that collects and stores photographs by photographers documenting Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The project is aimed at protecting the photographic heritage and memory of the war, and supports Ukrainian photographers who document events in Ukraine.
The book is supported by the Swedish Institute, the Hasselblad Foundation and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) within the Documenting Ukraine program.
You can buy the book in Ukraine at the Zbirka bookstore.
Abroad, the book can be ordered online.
All proceeds from sales will be used for grant programs for Ukrainian photographers.
Media publications about "13 stories of war" book:
You can read more about Ukrainian Warchive here.
For the requests, please contact: ua.warchive@gmail.com
