Julia Kochetova: War Is Personal

© Julia Kochetova

From October 6 to October 12

Julia Kochetova: War Is Personal

War Is Personal is a multimedia experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war, created and lived through by Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Kochetova. Documentary photography is mixed with poetry, electronic music, sketches, and real war objects – to make you see, hear, touch, and feel war.

“As a Ukrainian, I never chose war. I became part of a generation of war and revolution. I’ve been witnessing the Russian-Ukrainian war for more than 10 years now – with pauses – and I’m terribly afraid of silence. In war, silence is the harbinger of bad news.

Silence about my war means no news about Ukraine – it’s when human lives are turned into maps, infographics, numbers – and it becomes all too easy to lose the human being in that.

Wars painfully look the same. The wider image often erases the individual.
A drone shot can be powerful in showing the scale of destruction – but what about the human? People don’t remember numbers. People remember people. People don’t remember the trench – they remember the people in the trench. I wanted to give this war a name and a face. Because it’s mine, too.”

Julia Kochetova

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