America House Kyiv/Vitaliy Chumak
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Zorii Fain, one of the mentor photographers, explains to journalists how this art project raises issues of human rights, encourages a better integration of vulnerable communities and opens peacemaking dialogue.
Lidia Ivanova
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Veronika is happy to show off her new garden. She is one of four children in her family, now living in an uncompleted building. They are happy to have at least that.
Maria Zmyslia
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Horses also flee the war. This horse moved with its owners from the Luhansk Oblast.
KYIV – The U.S. Agency for International Development on January 15-30 sponsored an exhibition here at America House of photos taken by young people internally displaced by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The young photographers produced the images on display during a National Geographic Photo Camp held in Kharkiv during the summer of 2015.
Viktoria Borodatova
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The most talkative girl in the Romashka camp for the displaced, located outside of Kharkiv. She loves to paint and remains optimistic.
Alisa Stoyanova
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“V” moved from Zakarpattia to Donetsk, where she worked at a factory that serviced the mines. She still considers Donetsk home.
Mykyta Nekh
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Oleksander Tykhonovych, 86, an ailing pensioner from Donetsk, a former miner. He spoke at length about the tough lot of the displaced persons.
National Geographic organized the camp for internally displaced person age 17-30, asking that they tell the story of their new lives through photos that depict their impressions, hopes and concerns.
After Nat Geo experts provided the group a week of intensive training in photography, they handed them cameras and set them off to record their impressions. The exhibition presents 50 of the most evocative images.
Over the last several months, the exhibition has toured Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Severodonetsk, Sloviansk and Lviv.