Projects Funded

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.

Project	Grantee
A Million Stories	Artem Chapeye
Working toward a novel that will attempt to grapple with the magnitude of the war and the devastation that has followed in its wake
Diaries of War: Documenting Life Experiences in Spring 2022	Bohdan Shumylovych
Using methodologies of lived experience and embodiment, this project documents experiences of war through creative collaboration and social analysis.
Documentary Feature about the Russo-Ukrainian War	Maksym Nakonechnyi
A documentary exploring destructive and constructive transformations – of spaces, bodies, animals and identities – as a consequence of war
Documenting Ukraine’s Public Opinion in Time of War and Commenting on Its Trends in Ukraine and Abroad	Olexiy Haran
Conducting polls on war, geopolitics, national integrity and freedom in Ukraine to serve as a foundation for research, policy development and advocacy
Documenting Ukrainian Fashion during the Cold War	Olha Korniienko
Tracing the foundations of postwar Ukrainian identity and culture through the lens of fashion to create an online archive of Ukrainian fashion history
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
Evacuating and Archiving Contemporary Art in Ukraine: Documenting the Cultural Process in Ukraine during the War	Alona Karavai
Working to evacuate Ukrainian artwork to secure bunkers and working with requests and curatorial concepts to bring work to museums abroad and to international festivals
Explaining Ukraine in English	Volodymyr Yermolenko
A Ukrainian philosopher works to explain the country and its predicament to the English speaking world with a popular podcast and twitter account
Folklore and the War: Slobozhanskyi Dimension	Halyna Lukianets
Gathering folklore (songs, legends, etc.) in the villages of Slobozhanshchyna and reviving old traditions as an act of resistance
Food and Nutrition During War in Ukraine	Olena Braichenko
Using in-depth interviews, this research project will look at issues surrounding food and culinary practices and how they have changed in wartime
Fragile Memory: Photographic Archive of the Ukrainian Cinematographer Leonid Burlaka	Viktoriia Myronenko
Researching the photo archive of cinematographer Leonid Burlaka whose work documents various spheres of life in Ukraine from the ‘60s to the ‘90s
It's Not a Full Picture	Maryna Stepanska
A documentary film featuring the stories of nine Ukrainian filmmakers as they react to the life-changing advent of war in different ways

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women