The photo album “2025” is a final printed publication that brings together the results of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) microgrant program, implemented with the support of the International Press Institute. The magazine includes eight author projects by Ukrainian photographers: Liza Bukreieva, Oleksandra Zborovska, Yana Kononova, Oleksandra Mahula, Slava Ratynskyi, Ania Tsaruk, Oleksii Chystotin, and Maks Chornyi. Together, they form a single narrative about war and everyday life, loss and resilience — different intonations of one time.
This program is designed as support that is not only financial, but also professional: to create conditions for work, public presence, and authors’ development. For UAPP, microgrants are one of the practical tools to ensure that Ukrainian photography is visible, influential, and recognized in the world, and that the community is strengthened not by slogans, but by action.
In the album’s foreword, Mstyslav Chernov, the founder of UAPP, articulates an important framing: this publication is not about “teaching photography,” but about forming authors capable of influencing the future. Each of them is part of a broader conversation about what it means to be Ukrainian today — and the power of documentary photography lies precisely in the fact that it does not invent or explain, but bears witness and forces one to see.
The DUO team (Oleksandra and Mariia) worked on the album’s visual form: the restrained cover with an accent on the year “2025”, the refusal to choose a “main” image by a single author, and the well-thought-out internal structure emphasize the key point — the program’s collective result and the cohesive presence of eight voices in a single artifact of time.
