More about Kateryna Radchenko and Odesa Photo Days
Ukraine: The Path to Freedom was created in cooperation with curator Kateryna Radchenko from Odesa Photo Days. Odesa Photo Days іs a Ukraine-based international festival of contemporary photography and educational platform. It pushes forward Ukrainian photography and connects artists, curators and researchers from different parts of the world: Western Europe, USA, Eastern Europe, Central and Northeast Asia.
The eighth edition of the Festival was scheduled to take place in Odesa on 19-22 May 2022. Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, however, has changed everything. On February 24, 2022, a full-scale war started in Ukraine. Now Kateryna Radchenko, director and curator of Odesa Photo Days, and the festival team are working to spread the word about the situation in Ukraine and support Ukrainian documentary photographers and photography-based artists affected by war.
Over first three months the joint efforts of the Odesa Photo Days Festival and its international partners have brought to life 20 publications in print and online media, 22 exhibitions and 10 online talks and presentations. We have been cooperating on different terms with more than 40 Ukrainian photographers, whom our partners have supported with fees totalling 9,200 EUR. The total audience of all events and publications is more than two million people in 19 countries.
About Kateryna Radchenko
Kateryna Radchenko is a curator, researcher of photography, and lecturer. Her research focuses on manipulation, propaganda and vernacular photography. Curator and founder of the international festival of contemporary photography Odesa Photo Days. Since 2009 – head of the NGO “Art Travel”. Studied photography during the fellowship program at Villa Arson (Nice, France), during the Gaude Polonia program (Warsaw; curator – Adam Mazur), and at the Museum of Photography (San Diego, USA). Studied curatorship at the Intercult organization (Stockholm, Sweden) and during the Curator’s Platform project at PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine).
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Photo by Mila Teshaieva, part of the Ukraïne: The Path to Freedom exhibtion
