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
Beyond the News Images / Interviews of Documentary Photographers	Max Gorbatskyi
A series of publications featuring interviews with Ukrainian photographers, offering personal insights documenting war
Darkest before the Dawn: Gratuitous Gore in Ukrainian War-Related Humor	Andrii Dostliev
Analyzing the evolution of gratuitous gore in Ukrainian online vernacular humor since the 2022 invasion.
Dictionary of War (Словник війни)	Ostap Slyvynsky
A book filled with short texts based on monologues from victims and witnesses of the Russian invasion with each entry focused on an important word
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
Double Exposure (Подвійна експозиція)	Inga Levi
Daily drawings depicting overlapping accounts of scenes personally witnessed by the artist and traumatic news reports seen at a distance
FACE: TO: FACE	Aleksandr Eltsin
An audio installation featuring recordings of people’s lives that last for the duration of the wartime curfew in force between 11pm and 5am each day
Kharkiv - My Favorite City	Yevhenii Telukha
Preserving the memories of Kharkiv’s citizens by charting their favourite places on an interactive digital map
Language and War in Ukraine: The Vocabulary of Everyday Life in 2022	Halyna Matsyuk
A project to systematize lexical units that entered public life and trace the interaction of language and war through the changing semantics of words
Life During Wartime: An Audiovisual Experience	Yevhen Vorozheikin
Researching the audiovisual environment of war as a form of affective intrusion into the mind through personality centred ethnography
Marked Words: An Eccentric Dictionary of War	Oksana Maksymchuk
A part authorial, part curatorial exploration of how senses of temporality, mortality and responsibility adapt to a world undergoing extreme change
Patches: Humor, Design, Convictions	Anton Hauk
Researching the social and cultural significance of unofficial military insignia in Ukraine, analyzing humor, convictions, and aesthetics
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses

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