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
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
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Marked Words: An Eccentric Dictionary of War	Oksana Maksymchuk
A part authorial, part curatorial exploration of how senses of temporality, mortality and responsibility adapt to a world undergoing extreme change
FACE: TO: FACE	Aleksandr Eltsin
An audio installation featuring recordings of people’s lives that last for the duration of the wartime curfew in force between 11pm and 5am each day
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
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