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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Ukrainian Visual Arts in the Time of War: Paintings and Posters in 2022–2024	Tetiana Kovalenko
Analysis of Ukrainian war paintings and posters exhibited in Ukraine or abroad and those widely shared on the web
Mediated Testimonies: War Through the Lens of Children’s Picture Books	Nadiia Akulova
Creating a database of Ukrainian children’s picture books and analysing them as social, cultural, and historical documents
Visuality of Violence during the Russo-Ukrainian War	Lesia Kulchynska
Project on the function of digital media environments during the war and their impact on the operation of war-related imagery
Decolonial Wars and the Power of Artistic Voices	Kateryna Botanova
Writing about how decoloniality and artistic practices reflect, foresee and envision human and non-human experiences of war
The Language of Walls: Informal Communication in Public Spaces During Times of Crisis	Anton Hauk
Analyzing informal communication through graphic manifestations in public spaces, including graffiti, inscriptions, stickers, stencils, and other visual forms
Beyond the News Images / Interviews of Documentary Photographers	Max Gorbatskyi
A series of publications featuring interviews with Ukrainian photographers, offering personal insights documenting war
Wartime TV	Viktoria Bavykina
A project analyzing Ukrainian TV's evolution and war narratives since the invasion, highlighting television's impact on public opinion.
Darkest before the Dawn: Gratuitous Gore in Ukrainian War-Related Humor	Andrii Dostliev
Analyzing the evolution of gratuitous gore in Ukrainian online vernacular humor since the 2022 invasion.
Patches: Humor, Design, Convictions	Anton Hauk
Researching the social and cultural significance of unofficial military insignia in Ukraine, analyzing humor, convictions, and aesthetics
“Wall Evidence”: Open Archive of Russian Graffiti in Ukraine	Anastasiia Olexii
Curating and growing an archive of images documenting the technical, propagandist and absurd graffiti left by Russian soldiers in liberated areas
War Signboards	Andriy Rachinskiy
A scholar and collector of old signboards from Kharkiv returns to the city to document their transformation and degradation
Double Exposure (Подвійна експозиція)	Inga Levi
Daily drawings depicting overlapping accounts of scenes personally witnessed by the artist and traumatic news reports seen at a distance