Dmytro Kupriyan: When The War Is Over
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Dmytro Kupriyan
Dmytro Kupriyan (b. 1982) is a photographer and a photojournalist from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2014 and 2017 he travelled to the Crimea and the East of Ukraine to document the tumultuous events of the “Russian Spring”.
Kupriyan worked as a photojournalist at UIIAN.
"I started to work on the topic of tortures and for three years I was developing a project about tortures in Ukrainian police (project "TORTURED"), then I shifted to the topic of violence in a wider meaning making projects about war in Ukraine (projects "Fragments of War", "Banality of Aggression" and "WHEN THE WAR IS OVER"). Later as a conclusion I moved to the topic of dialog in the society as a reconciliation making a video about the necessity of Dialog. In the video I try to show that the only way to solve problems and misunderstandings in societies is in dialog: verbal, subverbal, physical, etc."
"I am interested in Ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (which is a name of an old traditional Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of national enthusiasts. I went on a couple of trips with the crew, through Ukraine and to Georgia, making a set of photographs about that experience. I spent a year in the army as an officer and made pictures during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donbas.