The
Artist
Dmytro Kupriyan
Lives and Works in
Kyiv
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 I shift 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").
At 2022 I finished long-term project about highest point in Ukraine mountain Hoverla, also made a project HOME about human habitat and project HOMO about human self-representation. After the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine start to serve in Ukrainian Army and made a projects about it.
Projects
2025
The Art of war or Rules of caring for a rifle
The name of the project consists of two parts. The first - "The Art of war" - is about the very fact of artistic expression during war and the conditions in a military environment in which art becomes inappropriate, when priorities change dramatically, and familiar social environments and connections are destroyed. But at the same time, the process of creating art gives the prospect of returning to a familiar existence, makes it possible to dream.
The second part in the title - "Rules for caring for a rifle" - is about the visual content of these photos, specific everyday routine actions that soldiers ought to do in order to achieve the goal for all of us in general. For that purpose they need to learn and repeat the same actions and movements every day, bringing them to sophistication, mastery and perfection - whether it's cooking, or training on the range, or simply cleaning weapons. That is why, in order to show these monotonous, and usually very boring processes, these photos consist of three photos, which either plot-wise or visually flow into each other and create triptychs of stories from the words of single photos.
Dmytro Kupriyan
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Odesa Photo Days Festival
in
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I’ve always loved photography, even if it sounds like a cliche. The first photos I took, I did without knowing how to do that, without paying any attention to framing, subject or composition. After a while, I began to understand what is happening in the space between me as a photographer and the subject I was photographing. And many years later, I also understood why I love to photograph. To communicate. A message, a concept, an emotion.
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