The project Atlas of Danger raises questions about how documentary photography functions after the news moment — when the image ceases to be merely evidence of an event and becomes a carrier of memory, trauma, ethics, and cultural experience. At the center of the exhibition is photography as a space of responsibility: toward the people depicted, toward the viewer, and toward the future.
Atlas of Danger proposes looking at the Russian-Ukrainian war not only through the lens of catastrophe, but also through the everyday reality of living within danger — in landscapes of destruction, evacuation, waiting, loss, bodily vulnerability, but also resilience, care, and the ability to continue existing. The project brings together works by photographers who approach the documentary image as a form of complex ethical gesture rather than rapid consumption of tragedy.
Artists participating in the project:
Vitalii Herasymenko (Kyiv, Ukraine); Vera Blansh (Kyiv, Ukraine); Serhii Melnychenko (Mykolaiv, Ukraine); Giulio Piscitelli (Naples, Italy); Emilien Urbano (Paris, France).
The title of the exhibition refers to the very nature of war as a spatial experience. Danger in Ukraine today has its own geography: frontlines and rear zones, shelters and railway stations, empty apartments, military hospitals, devastated landscapes, and cities living between air raid alarms. In this context, photography becomes a way of mapping not only territories, but also human conditions. The project gains particular significance in Kryvyi Rih — a large industrial city whose landscape is shaped by quarries, mines, slag heaps, and vast industrial spaces. A city where the scale of industrial geography now coexists with the experience of war becomes an important context for conversations about memory, vulnerability, and endurance.
The exhibition will run from June 13 to June 28, 2026. As part of the project, a parallel public programme dedicated to photography as a tool of memory, testimony, and ethical reflection on war will also take place.