BRAVE TO BRING THE LIGHT

The photobook "Brave to Bring the Light" is about the most difficult winter in the history of independent Ukraine so far. It includes photographs by more than 30 Ukrainian authors who documented the energy crisis caused by the Russian military's attack on Ukrainian infrastructure facilities during the fall of 2022, winter and spring of 2023. But above all, this is a visual book about the struggle of Ukrainians for light, both inside and outside, and about the courage of each of them to continue working in their fields because darkness disappears where light comes out. The edition includes a foreword by a prominent Ukrainian cultural figure Vlad Troitsky, as well as accompanying texts to three chapters and captions written by the authors for their photographs that further expand the context.

The profit from the sale of the book will be transferred for the 2nd Mountain Assault Battalion of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade.

Team

Initiative: DTEK

Author of the foreword: Vlad Troitsky

Authors of the photos:

Andrii Poleshko

Andrii Yakymenko

Anton Fedorov

Vadym Sarakhan

Viacheslav Ratynskyi

Hanna Kopylova

Hryhorii Vepryk

Dmytro Hreshko

Yevhenii Zavhorodnii

Yevhen Maloletka

Mykhailo Palinchak

Mstyslav Chernov

Nazarii Parkhomyk

Nazar Furyk

Oleh Petrasiuk

Oleksandr Popenko

Oleksii Filippov

Olena Pakhomova

Olena Tytarenko

Pavlo Petrov

Pavlo Podufalov

Polina Polikarpova

Roman Ketkov

Ruslan Synhaivskyi

Sasha Maslov

Serhii Denysenko

Serhii Kovalov

Serhii Korovainyi

Serhii Melnychenko

Serhii Mykhalchuk

Serhii Morhunov

Serhii Ristenko

Serhii Siviakov

Yurko Diachyshyn

Expert guidance: Halyna Hleba

Producers: ist publishing, Felix Zinchenko, Oleksandr Sheveliov

Author of the texts for the chapters: Olha Artiushenko

Translator of the texts from Ukrainian into English, corrector of the English texts: Iryna Kurhanska

Editor and corrector of Ukrainian texts: Victoria Berkut

Graphic and layout designer: Volodymyr Havrysh

Print: private enterprise “KOLO", Drohobych, Ukraine

The edition was created in cooperation with the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP)