Ukrainian architectural photographer Dmytro Soloviovs has spent years travelling by way of his nation, on a mission to doc its remaining Soviet-era buildings and protect the nation’s modernist heritage within the face of conflict. In partnership with FUEL Publishing, the artist has put collectively a 240-page e-book referred to as Ukrainian Modernism. By a photographic journey, Soloviovs chronicles Ukraine’s various Modernist historical past from avant-garde constructivism to late Soviet Brutalism.
“I travelled from the war-torn japanese areas of Kharkiv and Sumy to the Carpathian mountains within the west to doc these constructions, together with masterpieces just like the Kyiv Crematorium and Saliut Lodge, alongside beforehand undocumented gems such because the Uzhhorod Airport Terminal and the Novoarkhanhelsk Police Station,” the photographer mentioned in his Instagram announcement.
Most of the architectural websites are in disrepair, not solely resulting from neglect but additionally as a result of ongoing geopolitical warfare with Russia. Soloviovs additionally says the buildings stay largely unrecognised due to the cultural stigma related to the Soviet period. “With this e-book, I wish to change that,” he continued — “To shine a lightweight on this lesser-known but terribly wealthy heritage of Ukraine and to determine modernism as an integral a part of Ukrainian identification.”
In line with FUEL, the e-book comes with three architectural postcards and 10% of every order goes to the British Pink Cross Ukraine Disaster Attraction.
Set for launch in late April, Ukrainian Modernism is offered for pre-order throughout main platforms like Amazon and Waterstones, and native bookstores globally.
