#Kharkiv

In Kharkiv, a city battered by relentless Russian attacks, artists, curators, and performers refuse to leave their home. They won’t let the war silence them. Their studios double as bomb shelters, their exhibitions continue even amid blackouts, and their theaters adapt to missile alerts. 

They shook up the norms of Soviet photography, challenged and explored the medium's boundaries, and continue doing it today. Each of the five episodes of the documentary mini-series ‘ Kharkiv: Capital of Alternative Photography ’ covers one decade of the photographic practice of one of the most famous schools of artists in Ukraine.

How descendants of an underground, non-conformist photography movement—founded in Kharkiv in the 1970s—continue to capture war in Ukraine today.