Solomiya #4
147 × 215 mm, 100 pages (elastic bound)
Berlin, Germany and Kyiv, Ukraine (English-language)
Editorial board: Ivanna Kozachenko, Vsevolod Kazarin, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Oleksandra Pogrebynak, Jonathon Turnbull and Karolina Uskakovych
Art direction and design: Anne-Lene Prodd, Petre Bünnagel, Kollektiv Scrollan (Berlin)
Founded in April 2022 by Kyiv-based photographer Vsevolod Kazarin and Berlin photographer Sebastian Wells, Soлomiya is a visceral printed response to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Taking form as a folio, it documents the everyday life through the literal and figurative lenses of young independent Ukrainians battling with the existentialism of the continued war by their eastern neighbour.
The fourth issue rings changes, namely a more intimate, smaller format and the focus on a single theme; Soлomiya's ‘Environmental‘ issue sees Ukrainian artists and researchers challenge misconceptions surrounding their country's landscapes and ecologies, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network.
Spanning the Chornonbyl Exclusion Zone in Polissya to Odesa's wetlands and beyond, you'll find the text printed on soft uncoated paper, which sandwiches a set of matt pages containing all the imagery. Held together by their now customary elastic band.