Jan Jurczak
Life Goes On | Newspaper
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Life Goes On | Newspaper
ABOUT
‘Death, as with love, is where I draw the line on documentation. It is too deep within the realm of human privacy for me to photograph it’. Jan Jurczak
Since 2014, the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the most far eastern regions of Ukraine, have become a zone of armed conflict. What was presented at the beginning as an internal conflict within the country, soon became known to have Russian military presence involved in it. Since then, the war is ongoing, and despite the involvement of international diplomacy, it is not clear what and how long it would take for the region to see peace again. What is less covered by Western media are the lives of ordinary people in the area who had to adapt to and accept the circumstances of constant war around them. Since the conflict started, Jan Jurczak, a 23-year old photographer from Poland, spent two years on and off in Avdiivka, a village located at the frontline of the conflict in the Donetsk region, living with the locals and documenting their lives.
Life Goes On, an exploration of daily life in the conflict zone, is a photobook in the form of a newspaper. It consists of a series of photographs and statements about the love and death of people living in the conflict zone.
All the proceeds go towards the residents of Donetsk, helping families made homeless by the ongoing war.
FREE SHIPPING within the EU
Financed by Foundation for Visual Arts and PIX.HOUSE Gallery
32 Pages
Language: English
Size: 48 x 34 x (2) cm
The photographs in Life Goes On were taken in Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine, in towns mere kilometers from the front lines. Jan Jurczak grew particularly attached to one resilient community of locals in Avdiivka, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, to which he paid frequent visits. It was Elena who rented an entire floor of flats, making rooms available to those who were homeless. Residents fixed up a space for dance lessons and other activities. Irina, a makeup artist, whose son was killed by shelling, lives on the floor. Next to her reside Tanya and Tanya’s young daughter, Kristina. Irina, Tanya, and Kristina have no homes of their own. To the right of Irina’s room is a larger room, which Elena converted into a makeshift Protestant church, containing a handful of chairs, an old TV, and a standing cross. Here, two realities overlap. Life and war, love and death. The media has little airtime left for the conflict in Ukraine. And it has even less for stories about life during wartime. The war in Ukraine has been raging since 2014.
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek | photo editor, curator, and author of texts on photography
DESCRIPTION
‘Death, as with love, is where I draw the line on documentation. It is too deep within the realm of human privacy for me to photograph it’. Jan Jurczak
Since 2014, the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the most far eastern regions of Ukraine, have become a zone of armed conflict. What was presented at the beginning as an internal conflict within the country, soon became known to have Russian military presence involved in it. Since then, the war is ongoing, and despite the involvement of international diplomacy, it is not clear what and how long it would take for the region to see peace again. What is less covered by Western media are the lives of ordinary people in the area who had to adapt to and accept the circumstances of constant war around them. Since the conflict started, Jan Jurczak, a 23-year old photographer from Poland, spent two years on and off in Avdiivka, a village located at the frontline of the conflict in the Donetsk region, living with the locals and documenting their lives.
Life Goes On, an exploration of daily life in the conflict zone, is a photobook in the form of a newspaper. It consists of a series of photographs and statements about the love and death of people living in the conflict zone.
All the proceeds go towards the residents of Donetsk, helping families made homeless by the ongoing war.
FREE SHIPPING within the EU
Financed by Foundation for Visual Arts and PIX.HOUSE Gallery
32 Pages
Language: English
Size: 48 x 34 x (2) cm
The photographs in Life Goes On were taken in Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine, in towns mere kilometers from the front lines. Jan Jurczak grew particularly attached to one resilient community of locals in Avdiivka, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, to which he paid frequent visits. It was Elena who rented an entire floor of flats, making rooms available to those who were homeless. Residents fixed up a space for dance lessons and other activities. Irina, a makeup artist, whose son was killed by shelling, lives on the floor. Next to her reside Tanya and Tanya’s young daughter, Kristina. Irina, Tanya, and Kristina have no homes of their own. To the right of Irina’s room is a larger room, which Elena converted into a makeshift Protestant church, containing a handful of chairs, an old TV, and a standing cross. Here, two realities overlap. Life and war, love and death. The media has little airtime left for the conflict in Ukraine. And it has even less for stories about life during wartime. The war in Ukraine has been raging since 2014.
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek | photo editor, curator, and author of texts on photography
DIMENSIONS
‘Death, as with love, is where I draw the line on documentation. It is too deep within the realm of human privacy for me to photograph it’. Jan Jurczak
Since 2014, the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the most far eastern regions of Ukraine, have become a zone of armed conflict. What was presented at the beginning as an internal conflict within the country, soon became known to have Russian military presence involved in it. Since then, the war is ongoing, and despite the involvement of international diplomacy, it is not clear what and how long it would take for the region to see peace again. What is less covered by Western media are the lives of ordinary people in the area who had to adapt to and accept the circumstances of constant war around them. Since the conflict started, Jan Jurczak, a 23-year old photographer from Poland, spent two years on and off in Avdiivka, a village located at the frontline of the conflict in the Donetsk region, living with the locals and documenting their lives.
Life Goes On, an exploration of daily life in the conflict zone, is a photobook in the form of a newspaper. It consists of a series of photographs and statements about the love and death of people living in the conflict zone.
All the proceeds go towards the residents of Donetsk, helping families made homeless by the ongoing war.
FREE SHIPPING within the EU
Financed by Foundation for Visual Arts and PIX.HOUSE Gallery
32 Pages
Language: English
Size: 48 x 34 x (2) cm
The photographs in Life Goes On were taken in Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine, in towns mere kilometers from the front lines. Jan Jurczak grew particularly attached to one resilient community of locals in Avdiivka, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, to which he paid frequent visits. It was Elena who rented an entire floor of flats, making rooms available to those who were homeless. Residents fixed up a space for dance lessons and other activities. Irina, a makeup artist, whose son was killed by shelling, lives on the floor. Next to her reside Tanya and Tanya’s young daughter, Kristina. Irina, Tanya, and Kristina have no homes of their own. To the right of Irina’s room is a larger room, which Elena converted into a makeshift Protestant church, containing a handful of chairs, an old TV, and a standing cross. Here, two realities overlap. Life and war, love and death. The media has little airtime left for the conflict in Ukraine. And it has even less for stories about life during wartime. The war in Ukraine has been raging since 2014.
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek | photo editor, curator, and author of texts on photography
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
‘Death, as with love, is where I draw the line on documentation. It is too deep within the realm of human privacy for me to photograph it’. Jan Jurczak
Since 2014, the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the most far eastern regions of Ukraine, have become a zone of armed conflict. What was presented at the beginning as an internal conflict within the country, soon became known to have Russian military presence involved in it. Since then, the war is ongoing, and despite the involvement of international diplomacy, it is not clear what and how long it would take for the region to see peace again. What is less covered by Western media are the lives of ordinary people in the area who had to adapt to and accept the circumstances of constant war around them. Since the conflict started, Jan Jurczak, a 23-year old photographer from Poland, spent two years on and off in Avdiivka, a village located at the frontline of the conflict in the Donetsk region, living with the locals and documenting their lives.
Life Goes On, an exploration of daily life in the conflict zone, is a photobook in the form of a newspaper. It consists of a series of photographs and statements about the love and death of people living in the conflict zone.
All the proceeds go towards the residents of Donetsk, helping families made homeless by the ongoing war.
FREE SHIPPING within the EU
Financed by Foundation for Visual Arts and PIX.HOUSE Gallery
32 Pages
Language: English
Size: 48 x 34 x (2) cm
The photographs in Life Goes On were taken in Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine, in towns mere kilometers from the front lines. Jan Jurczak grew particularly attached to one resilient community of locals in Avdiivka, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, to which he paid frequent visits. It was Elena who rented an entire floor of flats, making rooms available to those who were homeless. Residents fixed up a space for dance lessons and other activities. Irina, a makeup artist, whose son was killed by shelling, lives on the floor. Next to her reside Tanya and Tanya’s young daughter, Kristina. Irina, Tanya, and Kristina have no homes of their own. To the right of Irina’s room is a larger room, which Elena converted into a makeshift Protestant church, containing a handful of chairs, an old TV, and a standing cross. Here, two realities overlap. Life and war, love and death. The media has little airtime left for the conflict in Ukraine. And it has even less for stories about life during wartime. The war in Ukraine has been raging since 2014.
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek | photo editor, curator, and author of texts on photography
PRINTS
Our prints are produced exclusively on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag papers. This acid- and lignin-free paper meets the most exacting requirements for age resistance and is specially designed for FineArt applications.
FRAMING
All prints are offered with Alpha Nielsen frames. They are made of aluminum with veneered real wood surface and normal glass offering quality and design for the highest demands.
- Floating glass
- Deposit of acid-free paper (200 g)
- Stable MDF back wall with springs and hangers
- Extra strong corner joint
- Adjustable hanger with height-adjustable wall hanger
FULL BLEED
A full bleed image extends to the edges of the printing paper, so that the photograph completely covers the page and does not show borders or white space around the edges.
MATTED
The mat is a piece of cardboard placed over your photograph to serve as a frame.
ACID FREE
We archive, package and frame your prints entirely acid free. Acid-free materials protect your artwork from yellowing and aging.
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