Quiet Trauma and the War in Ukraine
Year: 2024

The photographic archive assembled by the students and academics at the Lviv Center for Urban History sits apart from familiar tropes of photojournalism. As a powerful record of day-to-day existence, the archive gives visual form to the disruption and dislocation experienced in the immediate wake of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. My chapter investigates the relationship between trauma, vernacular photography, and the documentation of the every day and asks how this project mig