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
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
There Will Be No Lessons Today or Tomorrow	Sashko Brama
Telling the story of the graduating students of an 11th grade in Chernihiv, as the city was surrounded by the Russian army in 2022
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Ukraine War Photo Chronicles	Mstyslav Chernov
Creating an online platform for Ukrainian documentary photographers to share visual narratives and preserve the history of the Russian invasion
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war
War Dreams as Texts of Endangered Scholars	Bohdan Shumylovych
Project to document Ukrainian scholars' dreams and nocturnal war experiences, exploring societal impacts and creating an educational syllabus
War. Stories from Ukraine	Alyona Vyshnytska
A group of journalists, illustrators and translators join together to tell the stories of Ukrainians who awoke on February 24th to a world transformed
Wartime Art Archive: Discourse	Olga Balashova
Research observing and recording manifestations of war in the practices of Ukrainian artists – a new visual map of society’s transformation
Wild Fields of Ukraine	Sasha Dovzhyk
Creative nonfiction essays explore the past and present of the partially occupied Southern Ukrainian Steppe where a battle for Europe is being fought
Wooden Wings of War: Collection of Essays	Maryana Maksymyak
A series of essays exploring the cultural heritage of Buchach, focusing on the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish cultures and Agnon's works
Zatyshok against the War: Stories of Things, Pets and Plants that Ukrainians Loved but Were Forced to Leave	Petro Yatsenko
A Book exploring ‘zatyshok’ – the Ukrainian sense of coziness and the role it has played in the war.
“Red Horse”	Sasha Kurmaz
Exploring the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War through multiple collages that bring together photographs, found objects and personal notes

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