Liliia Kucher

I am a Ukrainian photographer. I started working in photography in 2017. My practice consists of conventional and non-conventional approaches to documentary photography. My main motif is the complexity of the relationships between people. Other recurring themes are loss, memory, longing, and the experience of life struggles. My autobiographical stories are an important part of my work process.

I rely on an anthropological notion of the lived experience of participants. I share some of my own stories in depth, as well as other people’s stories from their own lives. I place all these experiences in a broader context of the contemporary social issues that shape them. The past, as a memory and a shared set of stories, is understood through present-day voices, and in relation to present issues.

I experiment with the potential of visual and verbal languages to represent these ideas. I combine different photographic processes with poetic texts. I aim to encourage empathy, and our relation to other people’s stories, to discuss and understand our current social contexts.


My photography is influenced by the way I have come to respond to the memories of my experience of traumatic events in my early life. For a long time, these were...

2019 - 2021, MA Photojournalism and documentary photography, University of the Arts London, London College of Communication (with distinction).

"Saramago Through the Lens", UK Parobrod, as part of the Belgrade Photo Month Festival, April 2023.

"Saramago através da lente", Exhibition Pavilion of the University of Novi Sad, November 2022.

“Why is it blue?” as a part of the graduate show, London College of Communication, November 2021.

This-Ability Photography Exhibition, London, December 2018 - January 2019.