Grantees

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Project	Grantee
Hotel Europa	Mark Chehodaiev
Exploring former tourist infrastructure sites in Austria that are now offered as shelters to Ukrainians displaced by the full-scale invasion.
Nights and Days	Igor Efimov
Documenting the morning after Russian attacks, including both the immediate aftermath of those attacks and the ways urban residents move on with their lives.
Emulsion of Life: Between Normal Life and the Frontline	Kostyantyn Chernichkin
Documenting the daily lives of civilians across five frontline regions: Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro- Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.
Ukrainian Naïve Mosaics	Yevgen Nikiforov
Documenting and preserving so-called “naїve” mosaics created in the 20th century by “non-artists,” self-taught individuals whose works defy the artistic canon.
Occupation Diaries	Mykhaylo Palinchak
A documentary project based on the testimonies of those who kept a personal diary amid occupation.
Hell Was Full	Vic Bakin
A sincere and heartfelt collective portrait of the defenders of Ukraine on rotation and the looming sense of hell awaiting them on the frontlines.
Pieta	Alena Grom
A multimedia documentary project analyzing and articulating the maternal grief stemming from the loss of sons killed in action.
Naїve Ukrainian Gardens	Sergii Polezhaka
A documentary photography project reimagining the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War through images of destroyed gardens and homes across the country.
Ruskaya Vesna (Russian Spring)	Anatolii Stepanov
A digital photo album and collection of essays revisiting the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in spring 2014.
Every Finding is a Key	Viacheslav Ratynskyi
A visual exploration of one of the war’s most taboo subjects: the reality of death on the battlefield and how Ukrainians honor their fallen.
At Zero	Kateryna Radchenko
Researching pre-1991 photo archives and what was lost during colonial rule and past military conflicts, while rethinking how visual material can be preserved in the present day.
Unbroken	Aleksandr Chekmenev
Portraits and stories of servicemen and civilians who have lost limbs in the war and have been receiving care at the National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv