Donald Weber and Larry Frolick (2006): The Human Is an Atom That Won't Be Split: Resisting History in Ukraine, 2005-2006

Extent:

.25 Linear Feet (8 photographic prints)

Scope and content:

These color photographs were taken by Donald Weber in Ukraine in the mid-2000s, and document social conditions after Ukraine's independence from the former Soviet Union. Weber and his project writer Larry Frolick were awarded the 2006 Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor Prize for their work in Ukraine.

From the artists' statement: "As our work in Kiev, Chernobyl, and the industrial city of Dnepro-Dzerzhinsk shows, we've found a European people desperate to survive, isolated at the margins of the West's consumer-driven economy...with its 2004 Orange Revolution, Ukraine threw out the old Russian-backed political regime, electing a democratic leadership, its first since 1918. Hopes for this new regime were high but foundered as the Revolution failed to meet the needs of a civic society. Prostitution, drug use, and street gangs exploded under these pressures...What comes next? This is the question we intend to discover in our work."

Physical facet:

13x19 inches

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