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34 poles of creativity: copyright in photography
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, together with legal experts from the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (UAPI/IP Office), has initiated the development of a suite of standard contract templates for photographers to use in their daily work. This package of documents will include licensing agreements, agreements on the assignment of economic rights, as well as agreements on the payment of royalties and author's remuneration. It is essential to adapt these templates to various fields of photography, as each niche has its own unique needs and operational specifics that must be addressed from a legal perspective. In addition, practical guidelines are planned to assist photographers in navigating any potential copyright disputes or challenges.
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34 poles of creativity: copyright in photography
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, together with legal experts from the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (UAPI/IP Office), has initiated the development of a suite of standard contract templates for photographers to use in their daily work. This package of documents will include licensing agreements, agreements on the assignment of economic rights, as well as agreements on the payment of royalties and author's remuneration. It is essential to adapt these templates to various fields of photography, as each niche has its own unique needs and operational specifics that must be addressed from a legal perspective. In addition, practical guidelines are planned to assist photographers in navigating any potential copyright disputes or challenges.
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Shopping Malls, TV Channel HQ, Passenger Trains: Russia's Targeted Strikes on Civilians
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Photopublishing as a holistic statement. At the Lviv BookForum, the “Photobooks” cluster will be presented for the first time
Photobooks and photo albums have long remained a niche and somewhat understated segment of Ukrainian publishing. Today, however, amidst full-scale war, visual documentation is becoming one of the most powerful tools for preserving cultural memory, making sense of the wartime experience, and capturing our identity.
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Daily terror against civilians: consequences of strikes on Kyiv, Boryspil, Odesa, and Kramatorsk
The beginning of the school year in Ukraine turned into a week of exhausting and brutal attacks. The most massive shelling targeted the Kyiv region, Odesa region, and frontline communities of Donetsk. This week among the affected sites in the capital: a railway depot, a higher education institution, and the Security Service of Ukraine building; UNESCO World Heritage sites also suffered damage. During the strikes, specialists from emergency and municipal services, as well as workers from the metallurgical sector, were killed: a State Emergency Service rescuer, two police officers, a utility worker, six railway workers, and five metallurgists. Units of the State Emergency Service and Air Defense Forces worked continuously under heavy smoke and constant risk of repeated strikes.
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This week, Russia continued its missile and drone terror against Ukrainian cities. Hundreds of Shahed-type UAVs and dozens of tactical missiles were launched every day — from the well-known Iskander missiles to the latest Grom-1 models.
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This week, Russia continued its missile and drone terror against Ukrainian cities. Hundreds of Shahed-type UAVs and dozens of tactical missiles were launched every day — from the well-known Iskander missiles to the latest Grom-1 models.
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21.9.2024
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“Other Days of Life": a series of photographs by Alexander Rupeta about people who refuse to be conquered
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta with his series of photos “Other Days of Life” won the Xposure Photography Award 2024 as the best independent freelance photojournalist. For more than a year, he filmed life in different parts of Ukraine to show the war from a different, personal, perspective.
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21.9.2024
“Other Days of Life": a series of photographs by Alexander Rupeta about people who refuse to be conquered
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta with his series of photos “Other Days of Life” won the Xposure Photography Award 2024 as the best independent freelance photojournalist. For more than a year, he filmed life in different parts of Ukraine to show the war from a different, personal, perspective.
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21.9.2024
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Photo with history: Then dogs conquer the town, and each subsequent one looks at it as if it were water.
The prudent fear of obvious metaphors always tries to stop the author, but how difficult it is to avoid them when it comes to a town called Chasiv Yar. How to avoid the metaphor of a city devastated by war, which now belongs to a certain extent to dogs and memories, to lone survivors with weapons (because they have to somehow fight off those dogs), and most importantly - to the military, who have to defend the town from the Russians, whatever the ravine or the abyss of the sullen time but his memory was not engulfed by the fighting.
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21.9.2024
Photo with history: Then dogs conquer the town, and each subsequent one looks at it as if it were water.
The prudent fear of obvious metaphors always tries to stop the author, but how difficult it is to avoid them when it comes to a town called Chasiv Yar. How to avoid the metaphor of a city devastated by war, which now belongs to a certain extent to dogs and memories, to lone survivors with weapons (because they have to somehow fight off those dogs), and most importantly - to the military, who have to defend the town from the Russians, whatever the ravine or the abyss of the sullen time but his memory was not engulfed by the fighting.
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16.9.2024
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War Nouveau: Yuriy Dyachyshyn's series on new landscapes of war
Lviv photographer Yurko Dyachishin documents life during the war from the first hours of the full-scale Russian invasion. In particular, he photographs how the usual landscapes of his native city of Lviv are changing under the aggressive action of war. Yurko Dyachishin spoke about his work on the War Nouveau project, about the limits of aesthetics in wartime and why he does not believe that one photograph can stop the war, but he very much hopes that he is wrong.
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16.9.2024
War Nouveau: Yuriy Dyachyshyn's series on new landscapes of war
Lviv photographer Yurko Dyachishin documents life during the war from the first hours of the full-scale Russian invasion. In particular, he photographs how the usual landscapes of his native city of Lviv are changing under the aggressive action of war. Yurko Dyachishin spoke about his work on the War Nouveau project, about the limits of aesthetics in wartime and why he does not believe that one photograph can stop the war, but he very much hopes that he is wrong.
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16.9.2024
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"Foreign mercenaries" in Russia’s Kursk region: how pro‑Kremlin propaganda tries to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
With the start of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ military operation in Russia’s Kursk region, pro‑Kremlin Telegram channels and media began actively spreading narratives about “foreign mercenaries” allegedly fighting there. To reinforce these claims, they used photographs belonging to the Forward Observations Group account on Instagram.
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16.9.2024
"Foreign mercenaries" in Russia’s Kursk region: how pro‑Kremlin propaganda tries to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
With the start of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ military operation in Russia’s Kursk region, pro‑Kremlin Telegram channels and media began actively spreading narratives about “foreign mercenaries” allegedly fighting there. To reinforce these claims, they used photographs belonging to the Forward Observations Group account on Instagram.
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15.9.2024
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Not your home. Life in a modular town in photos by Danil Pavlov
In January 2015, a modular town for migrants from eastern Ukraine and Crimea was built on the outskirts of Kharkiv, near the airport. It was planned that small housing containers would become temporary shelters for internally displaced families. However, very soon, the fenced settlement turned into a ghetto and became a problem for the municipal authorities.
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Photo Stories
15.9.2024
Not your home. Life in a modular town in photos by Danil Pavlov
In January 2015, a modular town for migrants from eastern Ukraine and Crimea was built on the outskirts of Kharkiv, near the airport. It was planned that small housing containers would become temporary shelters for internally displaced families. However, very soon, the fenced settlement turned into a ghetto and became a problem for the municipal authorities.
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15.9.2024
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A residential high‑rise in Kharkiv shot up by Russian forces. Photographs by Heorhii Ivanchenko and Yevhen Hertner from the scene of the tragedy.
On 15 September 2024, a Sunday, Russian forces hit a residential high‑rise in Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. The strike ignited a fire that spread across four floors. The attack left 41 people injured, including four children.
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15.9.2024
A residential high‑rise in Kharkiv shot up by Russian forces. Photographs by Heorhii Ivanchenko and Yevhen Hertner from the scene of the tragedy.
On 15 September 2024, a Sunday, Russian forces hit a residential high‑rise in Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. The strike ignited a fire that spread across four floors. The attack left 41 people injured, including four children.

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