Project

Next Station Ukraine

Images from the Ukrainian subways, used as shelters during Russian attacks, are on display in the subway stations of European cities. Public space exhibitions, raising awareness about the war in Ukraine, already took place in Germany, Czech Republic and the UK.

On commercial billboards people see images of ordinary Ukrainians hiding in Kyiv and Kharkiv underground from Russian rockets while trying to maintain their everyday life there. It is not a campaign but rather our attempt to find another medium for documentary photography.

We work with Ukrainian and international photographers who contributed their images to the exhibitions: Maxim Dondyuk (Ukraine), Pavel Dorogoy (Ukraine), Serhii Korovayny (Ukraine), Viacheslav Ratynski (Ukraine), Jędrzej Nowicki (Poland) and Emile Ducke (Germany).

Photo: n-ost, Hannah Wilson. Original Image is made by Serhii Korovayny

"I hope it will be a powerful experience for people in Berlin traveling in the subway and seeing pictures from the Ukrainian underground."

Ukrainian photographer Serhii Korovayny

Here you can see all exhibitions that took place: 

Reporting on Next Station Ukraine:

  • Next Station: Photos of Ukraine under siege come to Berlin U-Bahns EX-Berliner
  • Mit der U-Bahn in den Krieg: Ausstellung zeigt das Leben in Kiews Untergrund Berliner Zeitung (German)
  • Ausstellung zum Ukraine Krieg:Zufluchtsort U-Bahn-Schacht FAZ (German)
  • Next Station Ukraine: Billboard-Foto-Ausstellung im Leipziger City-Tunnel ist ab heute zu sehen Leipziger Zeitung (German)
  • Українське метро: життя під землею Deutsche Welle Ukraine (Ukrainian)
  • Traveling exhibition brings everyday realities of war in Ukraine to Prague metro commuters english.radio.cz
  • Striking Prague exhibition shows Ukrainians sheltering in metro Expats. CZ
  • Příští stanice Ukrajina. hlidacipes.org (Zprávy / Politika) (Czech)
  • Metro jako bunkr. prazska.drbna.cz (Czech)

Here you can see some of the original images from the "Next Station Ukraine" project: