Exhibition

Ukrainian Frontline Photography

May 6, 2022 - September 1, 2022

Tartu College, 310 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1W4

May 6th – September 1st, 2022 at Tartu College

The powerful exhibit of photographs documenting the war in Ukraine can be seen at Tartu College until September 1st.

Included within the display will be works by both native Ukrainian people as well as an Estonian photographer. The exhibit is coming to Toronto thanks to curator Kateryna Radchenko from Ukraine and Okapi gallery located in Tallinn.

The photographs show crushed municipal and civil buildings, vehicles, and bridges; soldiers and ordinary citizens with all kinds of weapons and Molotov cocktails; carrying the deceased ones and rescuing domestic animals; rolling suitcases on ruined streets, fire, and smoke in snowy trenches. The authors of the photos are the local street photography flagships Yurko Dyanchychyn, Serhiy Hudak, Mikhail Palinchak, Oleg Petrasiuk, Alina Smutko, Stas Yurchenko, Sergei Ylyashenko, Mstyslav Chernov, Sergey Korovayny, Volodymyr Petrov, Pavel Dorogoy, Viacheslav Ratynski, Oleksandr Ratushniak.  Besides the Ukrainian authors, the exhibition also features fresh shots from the front line by their Estonian counterpart Dmitry Kotjuh.

The exhibit can be seen at VEMU (Tartu College, 310 Bloor St. W.) until August 1st and also at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton from June 1st for the duration of the summer with the exception of two weeks from June 14th- 28th when it will move to Hamilton City Hall.

Alongside this exhibit, VEMU is raising funds for the people of Ukraine to which you can donate here:

All donations will be collected by VEMU and transferred in-full to the charity foundation, “East-SOS.” This charity fund has been helping war victims since 2014. Now they are working not only with Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but with the whole of Ukraine. The charity buys and distributes humanitarian aid to those who are affected by the shelling of their settlements. The food and hygiene products in the country are running out, so they are working on establishing the supply of humanitarian aid from abroad.

“Estonians Stand With Ukraine” T-shirts made by VEMU can also be purchased at Tartu College for $25 of which $15 will be collected and donated to the charity foundation East-SOS. To purchase please email: vemu@tartucollege.ca

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VEMU wishes to thank our partners: the Odesa Photo Days Festival in Ukraine and the Okapi Gallery in Tallinn. Financial support for the project is being provided by VEMU and The Cotton Factory in Hamilton.

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