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.

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Project	Grantee
Testimony of Times	Yelizaveta Smith
Two filmmakers are documenting the war at a series of key moments for Ukraine’s cities, from refugees arriving in Lviv to the mass graves of Chernihiv
The Blue Sweater With a Yellow Hole	Tetiana (Tania) Khodakivska
Providing a platform for Ukrainian children's stories post-Russian "re-education" camps, aiding research, legal action, and advocacy
The New Ukrainian Wave	Daria Badior
Book of essays on post-2014 Ukrainian culture makers, detailing their challenges and the renaissance in the arts for an English-speaking audience
The Past Unsimple	Sashko Protyah
A hybrid documentary project tracing elusive and eloquent memory narratives in the setting of the Ukrainian periphery
The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of Ukrainians	Anna Osypchuk
A project to analyze and understand the dehumanization of the Russian military, people and elites as Ukrainians respond to the full-scale invasion
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
There Will Be No Lessons Today or Tomorrow	Sashko Brama
Telling the story of the graduating students of an 11th grade in Chernihiv, as the city was surrounded by the Russian army in 2022
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Ukraine War Photo Chronicles	Mstyslav Chernov
Creating an online platform for Ukrainian documentary photographers to share visual narratives and preserve the history of the Russian invasion
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war
War Dreams as Texts of Endangered Scholars	Bohdan Shumylovych
Project to document Ukrainian scholars' dreams and nocturnal war experiences, exploring societal impacts and creating an educational syllabus
War. Stories from Ukraine	Alyona Vyshnytska
A group of journalists, illustrators and translators join together to tell the stories of Ukrainians who awoke on February 24th to a world transformed

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