“Carrying the Light” is one of the projects selected within the third annual micro‑grant program supporting Ukrainian documentary photographers, implemented by UAPP. The goal of the program is to support authors who continue to document the experience of a country resisting aggression and who create visual evidence of events shaping the history of contemporary Ukraine. The program is carried out with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Photographer Iryna Kabysh explained how she captures the paradoxes of humanity — a species capable of turning global tragedies into digital content and its own existential crisis into viral memes — and why her love for the nature of light inspires her and gives her strength to nurture a new reality.

The last week of March will be remembered for unprecedented drone attacks that swept across almost every region of Ukraine, both day and night. On 24 March, Russian forces carried out the most massive UAV strike on Ukraine to date, launching nearly 1,000 drones in a single day. They targeted the centers of Ukrainian cities, cultural landmarks, maternity hospitals, and people’s homes. The historic center of Lviv was among the sites damaged. One of the most tragic episodes occurred near a maternity hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, where a father and his daughter were killed while visiting his wife, who had just given birth. It was also a devastating week for Dnipro and Odesa — Russian drones struck residential buildings and a medical facility. Over the course of the week, three maternity hospitals became targets of Russian attacks, and at least four kindergartens were damaged.

“Pre Mortem” is one of the projects selected within the third annual micro‑grant program supporting Ukrainian documentary photographers, implemented by UAPP. The goal of the program is to support authors who continue to document the experience of a country resisting aggression and who create visual testimonies of events shaping the history of contemporary Ukraine. The program is carried out with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Dmytro Kupriian is a Ukrainian photographer, artist, and serviceman. He documents not only moments of the war but also its impact on places and people. Today, Kupriian speaks about his series of photographs taken twenty years ago in the city of Donetsk — about how photography helps preserve the memory of territories that others are trying to take from us, what the atmosphere in Donetsk was like after the Orange Revolution, what questions can be asked of the people who still live there, and whether it is possible to find answers to them today.