In November 2025, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian photographer Vladyslav Krasnoshchok — “UKRAINA: Kriget fortsätter” / “Ukraine: The War Continues” — took place at Galleri Direkt (Landskrona, Sweden). The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP). It marked the first full presentation of the artist’s large-scale analogue project “Documentation of War,” which he has been working on in Ukraine since 2022.
Photographs shot on film and printed by hand transform the experience of war into a poetic visual archive — a story of loss, memory, human vulnerability, and resilience. Krasnoshchok deliberately resists the rapid pace of the news cycle: his photography slows time down and invites the viewer to see war not as a stream of “updates,” but as a profound reality that permanently alters people, space, and the very fabric of everyday life.
In his review for Helsingborgs Dagblad, Swedish journalist Johan Malmberg described these works as exceptionally important narratives of war — timeless, aesthetically powerful, and at the same time filled with pain. He emphasizes that Krasnoshchok’s photography is an act of resistance to instant journalism, an attempt to stop the gaze and look more deeply at what war truly means for a country and its people.
The exhibition became part of the international presence of Ukrainian photography and an example of cultural solidarity: thanks to the joint efforts of UAPP and Galleri Direkt, the artist’s voice was heard in Sweden as part of the European cultural space that supports Ukrainian artists. Importantly, despite the invitation, Vladyslav was unable to attend the opening, as he did not receive permission to leave Ukraine — yet his works, created here and now, continued to speak on his behalf.
Vladyslav Krasnoshchok — Vladyslav Krasnoshchok is a Kharkiv-based artist. From 1997 to 2002, he studied at the Faculty of Dentistry of Kharkiv State Medical University. From 2004 to 2018, he worked at the O. I. Meshchaninov Kharkiv State Emergency and Urgent Care Clinical Hospital. He has been engaged in photography since 2008, and in 2010 became a member of the “Shylo” group together with Serhii Lebedynskyi, Vadym Trykoz, and Vasylisa Nezabarom. In addition to documentary photography, which he aesthetically transforms through technical manipulations, he works with archives and hand coloring — techniques that took shape in Kharkiv photography as early as the late 1970s. He also combines photographic images with three-dimensional sculptural objects. He works in easel and print graphics as well as street art.
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