Artist talk: Stanislav Ostrous. Documentary vs art photography

Stanislav Ostrous is a photographer, photojournalist and teacher. He works where documentary and art photography meet, mostly in analogue techniques.

His project 7 Seconds is a series of portraits of soldiers of the 16th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, made as ambrotypes. By returning to early photographic methods, he explores how our perception of war changes when you choose slowness and attention to process over digital speed, and each image becomes a document of memory.

Stanislav will talk about his practice and experience and answer questions.

Finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025, exhibited in the main programme of Batumi Photo Days (2016–2019), shortlisted for PhotoCULT 2019, Heinrich Böll Foundation fellow in 2024. Member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative, UAPP and MYPH. He has exhibited in Ukraine, Germany, Georgia, Armenia, Poland, Korea and Lithuania, and his work has been published by the BBC, Frankfurter Allgemeine, DER STANDARD, The Art Newspaper and The Kyiv Independent.