Mykhaylo Palinchak
Mykhaylo Palinchak (1985, Uzhhorod) is an independent Ukrainian documentary photographer currently residing and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has pursued photography since 2008. Since 2012 member of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) and since 2014 of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF). In 2014 – 2019, he was the official photographer of the President of Ukraine. Founder of “Untitled” online magazine. Member of PEN Ukraine since 2022. Author of the photo book “Anamnesis” (2020) and art-book “Maidan Faces” (2020).
Tattoo with the outline of Ukraine on the chest of a woman that moved from Zaporizhya to Uzhhorod because of russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Basement of a primary school in the Yahidne village which was occupied by Russian troops. 28 days more than 300 residents of the village spend in this basement without electricity, heating, fresh air and any normal conditions. People fainted without oxygen and even died. These deaths were recorded on the walls near the door. The names of those who died at the hands of the Russians and those who died due to difficult conditions were recorded on the walls of the room. The prisoners kept a calendar on the door, where it is written “31 – ours have come”.
