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
Representations of Donbas (working title)	Dmytro Chepurnyi
A book project documenting the visual arts scene in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions from 1991 to 2023
Rescued Archive of Ihor Dychenko	Tetiana Voloshyna
Cataloguing, digitizing, and securing the personal archive of a prominent Ukrainian collector, curator and art researcher
Research: The Influence of Military Action on the Migratory Routes of Birds in the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine	Vira Porieva
Project to monitor rare migratory birds in Ukraine, assess war impacts, and inform national park management and global organizations
Road to Life	Olha Goldstein
Documenting community-led initiatives and the stories of the mass evacuation from Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine
Roma and War	Mykola Homanyuk
This project seeks to understand and document the ethnic and civic identities of the Roma and how these have been impacted by the war
Rural Hromadas of Chernihiv Region Amidst the War and Occupation: Experience of Survival and Resistance	Oleksandr Kryvobok
Collecting oral histories in the formerly occupied villages of the Ichnia Hromada to explore narratives of survival, coexistence and resistance
Safeguarding the Cultural Heritage of Roma People During the War in Ukraine	Nataliia Tomenko
Project aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage of Roma people in Ukraine during the war
Schrödinger's Cat: A Play	Lyuba Yakimchuk
A play about a Bucha woman returning to her home and encountering the Russian soldier who killed her husband.
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
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mykhailo 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
Seasonal Work	Olga Gaidash
Research on handmade contributions, primarily by women, to support the military
Short Documentaries about the Frontline Territories in Ukraine	Oleksii Kirin
Creating and translating short documentaries about frontline territories. The team aims to be on the ground as soon as possible after any liberation

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