Ukrainian Night
Ukrainian Night

photography Miron Zownir ; texts Kateryna Mishchenko

Author(s)
Kateryna Mishchenko
Publication
Leipzig : Spector Books, 2015
Scope
224 Pages, illustrated, 22.5 cm.
ISBN
9783959050128

Until tires burned on the Maidan, Ukraine was a blank spot on the map on the margin of Europe. The Maidan – symbol and location of month-long civil protests – marks a new era which the authors capture in words and images. In 2012/13 the photographer Miron Zownir and Kateryna Mishchenko, a Ukrainian writer and translator, visited the Ukraine to explore everyday life there from its margins. Zownir photographed drug addicts from Poltava, homeless people at Kiev’s main station, street children in Odessa and Chernivtsi and the inhabitants of several Roma camps. Mishchenko’s sensitive texts and Zownir’s close-up images document the profound fault lines in Ukrainian society, in which the harbingers of revolution can already be felt.


Person as subject
Miron Zownir
Keywords
photography
Location
Cabinet 12 - 3: Fotografen
Extra themes
Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
Remarks