Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
The Experience of Forced Migration of Ukrainian Youth in Vernacular Photography	Olena Martynchuk
The effects of adaptation, integration and resettlement experienced by Ukrainian youth in Poland as documented in vernacular photography
The Heritage Preservation Community and Its Transformations During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	Kseniia Paltsun
Project on war-related changes in Ukraine’s heritage preservation community and the resulting societal responses and initiatives
The Language of Walls: Informal Communication in Public Spaces During Times of Crisis	Anton Hauk
Analyzing informal communication through graphic manifestations in public spaces, including graffiti, inscriptions, stickers, stencils, and other visual forms
The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of Ukrainians	Anna Osypchuk
A project to analyze and understand the dehumanization of the Russian military, people and elites as Ukrainians respond to the full-scale invasion
The War Spoke to Us Loudly Through Explosions and Quietly Through Things	Alisa Demina
Analyzing the impact of war on Ukrainian material culture and social spaces, creating a database of war memorials in the Kyiv region
The Wounded Culture: Oral History	Olha Honchar
Documenting Ukrainian museum professionals' experiences as they preserve the country's cultural heritage during the invasion
Transformation of Relations in the Families of Ukrainian Refugees in the Conditions of War: A Feminine Vision	Olena Kondratiuk
Gathering interviews of Ukrainian women to document the human dimension of the war to serve researchers and the wider public
Ukrainian Childhood in the Face of War (Українське дитинство перед викликом війни)	Anna Oksiutovych
Interviews with displaced children and care givers document their stories and highlight the emotional significance of objects that travel with them
Ukrainian Visual Arts in the Time of War: Paintings and Posters in 2022–2024	Tetiana Kovalenko
Analysis of Ukrainian war paintings and posters exhibited in Ukraine or abroad and those widely shared on the web
Uman: At the Crossroads of War	Ihor Opatskyi
Recording, transcribing, collecting and representing the oral history of Uman in wartime and publishing it in an online archive
Vernacularchive	Andrii Usach
Project about exisiting and lost family archives of internally displaced persons, personal and family narratives as well as everyday archiving practices
Vilcha: A Short History of Double Displacement	Viktoria Naumenko
Documenting the experience of Ukrainian citizens who have been forcibly displaced twice—from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and Vilcha, a village in the Kharkiv region

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women