Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) in partnership with the organization PhotoEvidence presented the documentary project “WAR CHRONICLES: UKRAINE 2014 — 2025”, which was presented in the form of a book and exhibition within the 13th International Festival “Book Arsenal”. This large-scale project, supported by the Open Society Foundations and the Renaissance Foundation, aims to preserve the memory of war and support photographers who risk their lives for the truth.

Photo by Olga Kovalova

Photobook “WAR CHRONICLES: UKRAINE 2014—2025”— this is a powerful testimony of Ukraine's decades-long struggle for freedom, documenting the greatest tragedy in the recent history of Europe through the eyes of those who were at its epicenter. The book contains more than 360 photographs and dozens of testimonies recorded by Ukrainian documentarians and photojournalists since 2014 — from the Revolution of Dignity to the daily realities of full-scale war. Through the lenses of photographers emerges a chronicle of resistance, loss, dignity and indestructibility, which becomes not only an artistic artifact, but also an important historical source.

The project was implemented with the participation of leading Ukrainian photographers, participants of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers: Andriy Dubchak, Yurka Dyachishina, Georgy Ivanchenko, Olga Ivashchenko, Sergey Korovaynoho, Oleksandra Maguly, Evgenia Maloletky, Danyla Pavlova, Oksana Parafeniuk, Oleg Petrasyuk, Anatoliy Stepanova, Konstantin and Vladi Liberov, Vladislav Musienko, Volodymyr Petrova, Vyacheslav Ratinskogo, Alexey Furman, Mstislav Chernov, Maksym Dondyuk, Max Levinand others.

Photo by Olga Kovalova

Special attention is paid to the accessibility of this archive: the publication will be distributed in school and public libraries throughout Ukraine in order to become not only an object of cultural memory, but also an educational tool that will help young people to realize the depth of the events of the last decade and form a connection with living history. At a time when visual culture has become a weapon, this book is a weapon of truth.

“WAR CHRONICLES: UKRAINE 2014—2025"It is a book that immortalizes our voice, our memory, and our indestructibility.” Mstyslav Chernov

In addition to the book edition, during the Book Arsenal festival, the project was also presented in an exhibition format, which allowed the audience to physically immerse themselves in the visual evidence of the war — in the light and shadow of photographs taken on the front line.

Photo by Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Photo courtesy of the organizers of the Book Arsenal