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Ukraine
Photography, Color on Paper
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The photo is the part of the project "Fragments of War". Life size scans of munition fragments found in the territory of the Donbas, with grooves and bends, whose sharp edges can easily kill or maim anyone on their way from the barrel to the place of impact and spalling. Each fragment has its own history, the circumstances in which I found it; origin, where it came from and how I came by it; place where it was found. After the spalling and impact begins another story. And now compiling a new history which describes what happened during the war, the participation of the people, soldiers, volunteers, citizens - everyone became a fragment that was knocked from his/her place in life and abandoned on the battlefield and up to pile into something new and powerful. Found on base of UVC RS (Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, The Right Sector) of Donetsk Oblast. Bullet 5,45 millimeters Caliber - 5,45 millimeters Sighting range shot from AK-74 - 600 meters Bullet 9 millimeters Caliber - 9 millimeters Sighting range shot from PM (Makarov pistol) - 50 meters The war was in full swing, the Ilovaisk entrapment just occurred, everyone was focused on helping and volunteering for the front. Numerous volunteer battalion and military formations were organized. They were already armed and took their places at the sectors of the front. As a driver, I took cinematographer Leonid Kantor to shoot a movie about one of the battalions - the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps The Right Sector, which subsequently proved to be the most organized and militant of those that I have seen. The Right Sector became a bogeyman story for the other side of the front line, used to frighten as if they were savages ruthlessly destroying their enemies. I did not go to the front but stayed at the base. I went through a week’s training course on weapons handling, combat training, assault and sabotage training, navigation - basically the things that soldiers shall be taught in the army. I collected these shells and bullets at the firing range and made the collages. There I met soldiers that later became known for their fighting in the village of Piski - they were resting and waiting for rotation. Young reinforcements came, most of whom were discarded at the site, and the rest, as acknowledgment of the acquired experience and a promotion were sent to a checkpoint, then to Piski village, and, as a highest privilege - to the Donetsk airport. Those who fought at the airport were named “cyborgs” by the terrorists themselves and this title will be inscribed in history. Who was I at the time? A fighter. A driver. A journalist. A volunteer. A citizen. For more visit www.kupriyan.com
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Size:20 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in
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Ukraine
Worked as a photojournalist at news agencies and later started to work on the topic of tortures doing a photo project about violence in ukrainian police (project "TORTURED") and aftermath of it. Then he shift his camera to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine (projects "Fragments of War", "Banality of Aggression" and "WHEN THE WAR IS OVER") and later as a conclusion he moved to the topic of dialog in society as a reconciliation making a video about necessarines of Dialog trying to show that the only way to solve the problems and misunderstanding in societies is the dialog in all meaning of it: verbal, subverbal, physical, etc. Also he is interesting in ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (name of an old national Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of national enthusiasts. He went on a lot of trips over Dnipro river and Black Sea and made a set of photographs about that. On the boat he served as sailor, boatswain, motorist and made a lot of wood works. In 2015 he serve a year in army photographing during the Ukrainian-Russia conflict in Donbass.
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