Lecture: A chronicle of the Ukrainian photobook since independence

A photobook is more than a way of putting photographs in one place. It is a format that records change, searches for a language to talk about experience and builds its own cultural context.

In the lecture A Chronicle of the Ukrainian Photobook since Independence we will trace the path of the Ukrainian photobook from the 1990s to today: how it emerged, changed and responded to the reality around it.

We will cover:

• how the photobook evolved from independence to the present
• the first experiments after the collapse of the Soviet system
• the authors who dared to think in books, and their approaches
• how design, narrative and context work together
• the photobook as a tool of cultural representation and a means of expression

Robert Dovhanych is co-editor of MYPH’s 525 magazine, a researcher of Ukrainian photography, a PhD in art history and a photographer. It will not be a dull route: names, examples, mistakes, discoveries and a personal voice.