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Opening of the photo exhibition “Ukrainian Frontline Photography”

May 6, 2022
5 pm

On Friday, May 6th at 5 p.m at Tartu College, will be the opening event of a photography exhibit documenting the Ukrainian war. 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.


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 Cotton Factory in Hamilton.
The exhibit will remain open until the end of July at VEMU (Tartu College, 310 Bloor St. W.). It can also be viewed at Toronto’s City Hall from May 7th-13th and in May and June at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton.
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