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THBDmytro Kupriyan, Mortar shell mine 82 millimeters, 2014 | Print 1 of 10
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TimedApr 12, 2023 - May 7, 2023
Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s—Now is a joint photography multimedia exhibition presented by In Ukraine, Magnum Photos and Spilka from April 12 - May 5, 2023, in New York. The auction of many of the works on view will benefit Spilka’s crucial relief work on the ground in Ukraine. Spilka Inc. spilka.events@gmail.com
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Dmytro Kupriyan, Mortar shell mine 82 millimeters, Piski village of Yasynuvata Raion of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 2014
Description: I found this fragment of mortar shell mine at the Pesky village on the "Jazz Band" position in 2014 during the heavy fights. “Jazz Band” mortar position of Ukrainian Volunteer Corps The Right Sector in the village of Piski of the Donetsk region. A squad is going to a position for a 24 hour duty. I persuaded the commander El Gato (Spanish for Cat) to take me with them so I could photograph. First - the position is prepared, mortar shells are checked and cleaned from snow and dirt (a job done by the newcomers who to learn from experience - they need to start from something), and then equip them with gunpowder and detonators. El Gato had phoned his commander several times to ask for more mortar shells. The commander promised, but the military is not allowed to share weapons with Ukrainian Volunteer Corps The Right Sector since the latter is not officially recognized and is basically “an armed formation” that does not report to anybody. Thus, mortar shells are scarce and are used very carefully, shot only when the results are certain: - There is something “warm” moving in the foliage - comes a report from the NEBO (SKY) position which is the eyes over the whole Piski village, - throw a fougasse down there. - Negative, mortar shells are scarce, continue observing, - “Jazz Band” responds. After a while the radio is live again: - Vehicle lights on behind the dump, shoot a “Lighter” shell there, pretty please. - Shell gone, watch it, - reports “Jazz Band” immediately after the shot, getting thanks and good night wishes in response, just to be woken up to be set a new target in a while. At night the fighters jumped up on alert and, as routinely as going to work, promptly grabbed the rounds and rushed to the mortar where others were already setting it up. Several times there was mortar shelling in response from the other side but it did not even come close... They were firing at random. A day and night passed this way, and in the morning a new daily-shift came, and, ever so casually the duty was passed on to the next squad, and we dragged on through the village to a more or less secure basement to get some sleep.
Paper Dimensions: 35 x 28 cm | 13 25/32 x 11 1/32 inch
Limited edition out of artist’s print: 1 of 10 available on BidsquareDmytro Kupriyan | Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1982. Worked as a photojournalist at news agencies and later started to work on the topic of tortures doing a photo project about violence in ukrainian police (project "TORTURED") and aftermath of it. Then he shift his camera to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine (projects "Fragments of War", "Banality of Aggression" and "WHEN THE WAR IS OVER") and later as a conclusion he moved to the topic of dialog in society as a reconciliation making a video about necessarines of Dialog trying to show that the only way to solve the problems and misunderstanding in societies is the dialog in all meaning of it: verbal, subverbal, physical, etc. Also he is interesting in ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (name of an old national Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of national enthusiasts. He went on a lot of trips over Dnipro river and Black Sea and made a set of photographs about that. On the boat he served as sailor, boatswain, motorist and made a lot of wood works. In 2015 he serve a year in Army Forces of Ukraine photographing during the Ukrainian-russia conflict in Donbass and made projects about it. After demobilization he start to explore human as it is and made a project HOME/Дім about human habitat and project HOMO/Людина about self representation of human. In 2022 he finished project about highest point in Ukraine mountain Hoverla (“36 view of mount Hoverla”) that he made for five years traveling along Ukrainian Carpathian mountains exploring local specific and features. The same year the russian invasion in Ukraine starts so he again called to Army Forces of Ukraine.
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