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
An Essay from the Front	Andriy Lyubka
A book length essay on the daily lives of the Ukrainian soldiers behind the news reports as witnessed by a volunteer making regular trips to the front
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
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
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
Chronicles of the Revival (Хроніки відродження)	Olha Mykhailiuk
Video interviews translated into English that tell the stories of eight Irpin residents affected by occupation as the city is gradually revived
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
Museum at War: Preservation of History and its Artefacts by Human Hands During the War	Sasha Dolhyi
A documentary film focusing on the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Art Museum and workers who stayed behind to save collections from destruction
Wild Fields of Ukraine	Sasha Dovzhyk
Creative nonfiction essays explore the past and present of the partially occupied Southern Ukrainian Steppe where a battle for Europe is being fought
Women Occupied: A Documentary Film	Oksana Ivantsiv
A documentary based on five true stories of women from different countries raped by enemy soldiers with stories told through a mosaic of reenactments
Preparing and Publishing a Book: Voices of War	Yevhen Zakharov
Collecting and publishing video interviews with victims of - and witnesses to - Russian atrocities which will later be curated into book form
Zatyshok against the War: Stories of Things, Pets and Plants that Ukrainians Loved but Were Forced to Leave	Petro Yatsenko
A Book exploring ‘zatyshok’ – the Ukrainian sense of coziness and the role it has played in the war.
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