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Documentation of the War
Documentation of the War gathers 165 black-and-white photographs made in Ukraine between 2022 and 2025. Its subjects range across damaged landscapes, military life, civilians, animals, loss, and the changed routines of everyday existence. Rather than presenting war as a single scene or argument, the sequence appears to move between public destruction and intimate observation. Krasnoshchok’s accompanying writing, presented in Ukrainian and English, adds a textual dimension to the images. Historical dates, maps, and contextual information further situate the photographs within a developing record of the conflict.
Vladyslav Krasnoshchok contributes the perspective of a Kharkiv-based Ukrainian photographer working amid the war’s continuing effects. His contribution is not limited to recording visible damage: by placing military subjects alongside civilians, animals, and ordinary surroundings, he attends to the broader texture of life under wartime conditions. The monochrome treatment gives the images a stark, concentrated character, while the combination of photographs and writing suggests an effort to connect immediate observation with reflection and documentation.
The book’s significance lies in its attempt to hold together several kinds of testimony. It records destruction, but also the persistence of daily life and the varied human and nonhuman presence within a war-affected landscape. Its value is therefore documentary and artistic at once. The work can be read as a sustained visual account of Ukraine during a defined period, while its sequencing and restrained black-and-white language invite attention to mood, absence, and the ways familiar environments are transformed.
A collector might care about Documentation of the War because it brings together contemporary photographic practice, personal witness, and historical framing in a single coherent project. Its interest is not only in individual striking images, but in the relationships among landscapes, people, animals, and written context. For readers collecting important responses to current history, the work offers a serious example of how photography can preserve lived experience while remaining open to ambiguity, grief, and interpretation.
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Documentation of the War is a signed first-edition photobook by Kharkiv-based Ukrainian photographer Vladyslav Krasnoshchok. Made from photographs taken between 2022 and 2025, it forms a stark black-and-white visual record of wartime Ukraine, moving through damaged landscapes, military life, civilians, animals, loss, and the altered routines of everyday existence.
The book brings together 165 photographs in multiple formats, accompanied by Krasnoshchok’s writing in Ukrainian and English. Its dossier-inspired design uses Swiss binding, a soft cover with a die-cut dust jacket, 136 pages, two tri-fold sections, and a double-sided A4 reference insert presenting historical dates, maps, and contextual information. The book measures approximately 22 x 30 cm and weighs about 0.86 kg.
This brand-new softcover copy is signed by Krasnoshchok in black ink on an applied label on the copyright page. It is the 2026 first edition published by Red Hook Editions in an edition of 1,500 copies and printed in Italy.
The photographed cover, copyright page, inserts, and representative interior spreads appear clean and bright. Apart from the signature, no additional writing, staining, tears, foxing, or page toning is visible in the photographs. Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the description.
