Independent Publishing House — Palermo
Independent Publishing House — Palermo
45,00 €
Dmytro Kupriyan was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1982. Worked as a photojournalist at news agencies and later started to work on the topic of tortures doing a photo project about violence in Ukrainian police (project “TORTURED”) and aftermath of it. Then he shift his camera to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine (projects “Fragments of War”, “Banality of Aggression” and “WHEN THE WAR IS OVER”) and later as a conclusion he moved to the topic of dialog in society as a reconciliation making a video about necessaries of Dialog trying to show that the only way to solve the problems and misunderstanding in societies is the dialog in all meaning of it: verbal, sub-verbal, physical, etc. Also he is interesting in Ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (name of an old national Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of national enthusiasts. He went on a lot of trips over Dnipro river and Black Sea and made a set of photographs about that. On the boat he served as sailor, boatswain, motorist and made a lot of wood works. In 2015 he serve a year in army photographing during the Ukrainian-Russia conflict in Donbass and made projects about it. At 2022 he finished self long-term project about highest point in Ukraine mountain Hoverla, also made a project HOME/Дім about human habitat and project HOMO/Людина about self representation of human. After the Full-scale invasion of russia in Ukraine start to serve in Ukrainian Army once again and made a projects about it. Member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers.
Dmytro Kupriyan
1. EDITION 03/2026
Text by Dmytro Kupriyan
Book design by Dmytro Kupriyan
316 pages
20 x 20 cm
408 BW Photographs
Softcover
Digital print
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