news photographer Andriy Dubchak has documented events of war in the frontlines and everywhere in Ukraine.
Photo Exhibition: In the Frontlines and on the Home Front – Donbas Frontliner and Ukraine Beyond News Pictures
In the unique photo exhibition put together for Tampere, we have a chance to look at Ukraine’s defense struggle through the eyes of Andriy Dubchak. The opening event (invitation only) of the exhibition will be held at Finlayson, Tampere, on Wednesday September 27th at 4 pm.
Photo Exhibition: In the Frontlines and on the Home Front – Donbas Frontliner and Ukraine Beyond News Pictures
The exhibition is organized for the Tampere Freedom of Speech Event by The Finnish Cultural Foundation’s Pirkanmaa Fund in co-operation with Finlayson Area.
Open for public from Sep 28th to Oct 14th 2023
On weekdays from 12 to 6 pm, Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.
Media 54, Finlayson,
Satakunnankatu 18A, Tampere
Ukraine’s society and defense forces have battled against the full-scale invasion war launched by Russian Federation since February of 2022. Each day the war has demanded human lives, shattered homes, and forced many to inhumane situations. Amid war, the strength of humanity and unitedness are also visible. Many heroes have made an extreme sacrifice to save Ukraine, democracy, and our free European way of life including freedom of speech.
The Founder of Donbas Frontliner, reporter, and news photographer Andriy Dubchak has documented events of war in the frontlines and everywhere in Ukraine, since 2014. His photos and reports have been published widely by both Ukrainian and international quality media, in Finland Helsingin Sanomat.
In the unique photo exhibition put together for Tampere, we have a chance to look at Ukraine’s defense struggle through the eyes of Andriy Dubchak. Producer and manager of Donbas Frontliner, Yelyzaveta Kovtun, talks about the backgrounds of the pictures and the feverish work of their team in Donbas and other hotspots of the war.
Donbas Frontliner has been honored for example by the Swedish freedom of speech award Fritt Ord. Andriy Dubchak is nominated for the most distinguished Ukrainian journalism award, the Georgiy Gongadze Prize in the year 2023.
In the other part of our exhibition, we move to the civilians of Kyiv and the moments right after Russia launched its appalling war on February 24th, 2022. The Ukrainian photographer Kseniia Pavlova took pictures of people, children, in the living quarters of Kyiv that had now become the home front. Pavlova’s photos bring back the moments when she could do nothing else but use her camera.
The Tampere Ukrainian documentarist and musician Lukas Stasevskij, in his 18-minutes movie “Ukrainian Rhapsody”, describes the changes in his own identity as Ukrainian and in the lives of many Ukrainians he met, during his travel to Ukraine’s communities. The film becomes a heartfelt tribute.
Founder of the Color Up Peace start-up, a Ukrainian artist who grew up in Crimea and based in Tampere, Lisa Glybchenko closes the exhibit with her stylish motives of the Ukrainian flag, Blue and Yellow.
