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Ukraine 2022-2024: Diary of an Aid Worker is the 9th book by the British multi-nominated artist photographer Mark Neville.
When war in Ukraine escalated two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Mark Neville decided to stay in his adopted home base in Kyiv, and set up a charity, Postcode Ukraine. He has since been making deliveries of humanitarian aid to frontline towns.
More than 100 previously unpublished photographs have been taken during these dangerous aid trips, and Neville’s diary gives us his own unique, unsettling, yet stunningly beautiful insight into life in Ukraine. Exploring themes of commitment, the meaning of home, loss, resilience, the power of children, women and motherhood, and our relationship to the land, Neville’s new project highlights the importance of charity work and mental health support for a traumatised nation.
This book is a beautiful photo book and an essential testimony, it is also a call to action for the West, a meditation on trauma, a tool kit of vital information for the Ukrainian audience about where to access support, and a reconfiguration of the roles both of the photo book and the photographer.
As well as making the book uniquely available to buy here, 1 000 copies will be disseminated for free throughout Ukraine by Postcode Ukraine to schools, military families, doctor’s clinics, army bases, and churches in an effort to encourage more Ukrainians to come forward and receive crucial mental health support.
“All of us in the West are engaged in the war already, whether we accept it or not, with an enemy we cannot negotiate with and who will not stop at Ukraine. By saving Ukraine we save the world and our children.”
Ukraine 2022-2024: Diary of an Aid Worker features photographs taken during the past two years in Ukraine, in black and white and colour, all shot using either medium or large format film cameras. The book has been designed by acclaimed graphic designer Ania Nałęcka-Milach, who also co-edited it with Mark. It will be approximately 280 pages, hardcover, 245 x 335 mm / ≈ 9.6 x 13.2 inches.
As of March 22nd, this project has raised $2,500 of their $10,838 goal. This project has 31 days left to raise the $10,838 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $7, you will get 5 postcards. For a pledge of $54, you will get one book. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caurettepublishing/ukraine-2022-2024?
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