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
War Confessions	Bohdana Zaiats
This installation will allow the public to read translated war confessions gather by the artist and potentially leave their own, anonymously
Little Stories of a Big War as a Source for Research	Olena Dzhedzhora
Systematizing, collecting, translating, platforming and publishing the testimonies of the ordinary lives affected by the war in Ukraine
Scorched Earth	Oleksandr Kuchynskyi
Combining amateur video footage sourced from the Internet into a long form documentary film that will preserve this unique record of the conflict
THEN & NOW	Roman Pashkovskiy
A personal project reflecting on the divide between life prior to February 24th 2022 and the experience of living in the shadow of the invasion today
A Thread of Memory (The Voices of Witnesses)	Kateryna Yehorushkina
Following the example of her grandmother, a Holodomor survivor, Yehorushkina preserves witness accounts to continue the thread of memory
Elderly War-Affected People in Contemporary Ukraine	Hanna Bondarenko
Documenting the impact of war on Ukrainians aged 65-90, an oft-overlooked group many of whom are encountering war for the second time in their lives
Survive and Win: The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022	Roman Mykhalchuk
Documenting testimony of Russian trauma and aggression from evacuees, volunteers, soldiers, government reps and local elites doing all they can to win
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
Ukrainian Childhood in the Face of War (Українське дитинство перед викликом війни)	Anna Oksiutovych
Interviews with displaced children and care givers document their stories and highlight the emotional significance of objects that travel with them
Methodology of Documenting War Stories for the Virtual Museum of the Russian Aggression	Olha Volianiuk
Revealing the peculiarities of developing documentary war stories via the presentation of case studies for the Virtual Museum of Russian Aggression
The Heritage	Alina Gorlova
A film about memory and change that serves as a portrait of the invading forces, seeking to capture reasons for actions seemingly beyond understanding
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mikhail Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story