In response to the war, the group exhibition “In the Name of Freedom” is being realised by the CHAUSSEE 36 PHOTO FOUNDATION in cooperation with the photographers of the Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization. Conceived purely as a fundraising project, the proceeds from the sale of prints from the exhibition and drinks will be donated to the non-profit organisation Be an Angel in Berlin, which supports Ukrainian refugees.
The exhibition “In the Name of Freedom” brings together photographs that show the many facets of a country between tradition and modernity. A kaleidoscope of images emerges: young girls of bygone times and transfigured grandmothers, yellow-blue dachas and Soviet buildings, Molhotov cocktails and iPhones to taste. In all their subjectivity, these Ukrainian artists and women give us an intimate, documentary, tragic and surreal vision of a country in transition and now at war. …
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Image above: Lesya Teslya, On the brink, © Lesya Teslya, Courtesy of the artist