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Photo exhibition “Illumination” by Mykhailo Palinchak to open in Kyiv on January 18

17.1.2024
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January 18 at 17 o'clock in the Small Gallery of the Art Arsenal photographer, member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers Mykhailo Palinchak will present a selection of photos called “Highlights”. Houses destroyed by air bombs, torture sites of executions and mass burials in Kherson, Izyum, Bucha, Yagidny and at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — all 42 pictures were taken from the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

“This exhibition is about the fight against the darkness that is trying to envelop our country,” Mykhailo explains.

The peculiarity of the pictures is that they were all taken with a flash.

“The flash exposes the process of photography: hands holding weapons, preparing food, painting trophy equipment, being outlined and put on public view. Here and now, in a moment that drags on and turns into doom. Photographs do not absorb reality, do not anesthetize it,” writes writer and radio host about Palinchak's photos Olena Guseynova.

Tattoo with the outline of Ukraine on the chest of a woman who moved from Zaporizhia to Uzhgorod due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Mykhailo Palinchak. Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

The exhibition in Kyiv will last until February 25, 2024. Opening hours: Wednesday — Sunday from 12:00 to 19:00. Entrance is free.

Also snapshots Palinchak will travel to Brussels on January 25. Earlier, part of the works of his main series had already been presented in Italy as part of a group exhibition.


Mykhailo Palinchak — Ukrainian street, reportage and documentary photographer who lives and works in Kyiv. He was born in 1985 in Uzhgorod in the family of a photographer. He started photographing in 2008. Member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) since 2012 and member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2014. 3 2014 to 2019 official photographer of the President of Ukraine. Founder of Untitled platform dedicated to Ukrainian photography. Community co-founder “Ukrainian Street Photography”— platforms for popularization, discussion and exchange of experience in the field of street photography in Ukraine. Author of the photo book “Anamnesis” (2020) and the art edition “Faces of the Maidan” (2020).

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar

January 18 at 17 o'clock in the Small Gallery of the Art Arsenal photographer, member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers Mykhailo Palinchak will present a selection of photos called “Highlights”. Houses destroyed by air bombs, torture sites of executions and mass burials in Kherson, Izyum, Bucha, Yagidny and at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — all 42 pictures were taken from the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

“This exhibition is about the fight against the darkness that is trying to envelop our country,” Mykhailo explains.

The peculiarity of the pictures is that they were all taken with a flash.

“The flash exposes the process of photography: hands holding weapons, preparing food, painting trophy equipment, being outlined and put on public view. Here and now, in a moment that drags on and turns into doom. Photographs do not absorb reality, do not anesthetize it,” writes writer and radio host about Palinchak's photos Olena Guseynova.

Tattoo with the outline of Ukraine on the chest of a woman who moved from Zaporizhia to Uzhgorod due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Mykhailo Palinchak. Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

The exhibition in Kyiv will last until February 25, 2024. Opening hours: Wednesday — Sunday from 12:00 to 19:00. Entrance is free.

Also snapshots Palinchak will travel to Brussels on January 25. Earlier, part of the works of his main series had already been presented in Italy as part of a group exhibition.


Mykhailo Palinchak — Ukrainian street, reportage and documentary photographer who lives and works in Kyiv. He was born in 1985 in Uzhgorod in the family of a photographer. He started photographing in 2008. Member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) since 2012 and member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2014. 3 2014 to 2019 official photographer of the President of Ukraine. Founder of Untitled platform dedicated to Ukrainian photography. Community co-founder “Ukrainian Street Photography”— platforms for popularization, discussion and exchange of experience in the field of street photography in Ukraine. Author of the photo book “Anamnesis” (2020) and the art edition “Faces of the Maidan” (2020).

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar

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