Kharkiv School of Photography

This monograph by Nadiia Bernar-Kovalchuk is based on research conducted as part of an art history program at the Sorbonne University in Paris.

The book reveals the multiple influences and experimental nature of one of the most striking phenomena in Ukrainian contemporary art. Emerging from Soviet underground culture, the ruins of empire and later the barricades of Kyiv, the Kharkiv School of Photography has for over half a century been defined by irony, a critical approach to the medium and collective practice.