Artdoc Photography Magazine

Artdoc is an international digital magazine dedicated to the world of photography. The name Artdoc refers to our vision of art photography and documentary photography. The two fields have merged, and contemporary photography is a blend of both. Artdoc brings photography as the visual storytelling medium of our time. Artdoc Photography Magazine publishes engaging and high-quality portfolios of established and emerging photographers. Moreover, Artdoc publishes critical essays about the theory of photography.

War and Peace

Happy youth reconstructed • She had a happy childhood, representing it in the cinematographic photo series Childhood Ballad. However, the young Ukrainian visual artist Polina Polikarpova now leads an entirely different life. Having been forced to leave her boyfriend behind, she fled from her apartment in Kyiv right at the beginning of the war and is now thinking of new work once the war is over.

Embroidered images

Phantom of War

Guillaume Herbaut wins WPP Long-Term Projects Europe • Amidst a sea of fast paced news events this highly relevant project offers a contemplative look at the largest ongoing conflict in Europe. The photographer has created something that is neither violent or graphic, giving viewers space for a moment of reflection. The consistency of suspended images and the variety of elements provides us with a nuanced approach that depicts the multilayered impacts of long-term conflict on daily life and the psyches of those who are living through it.

War and Peace • Many photographers feel the Russian Invasion as a threat or as a reminder of the many past wars. From many countries worldwide, including Taiwan, Belarus, Iran, Serbia, Russia and Ukraine, Artdoc received entries from creative photographers who expressed their feelings of concern, fear, and their wounds from older conflicts. For this special exhibition, War & Peace, dedicated to Ukraine, we selected documentary and staged photos with a wide variety of creative expression, ranging from a neglected war monument in Belarus to an old granny in Kyiv and from broken windows to constructed flowers, as signs of hope for peace.

WWI German soldiers’ monument in Belarus

Inhumanoid

#Photo Books

Refugees of the ongoing war • Serhii Korovayny, a young Ukrainian photographer, educated in Syracuse, New York, USA, is mainly focused on storytelling. He tells his visual stories in the regular reportage style, frequently with assignments for different international newspapers, but he adopted the documentary portrait style in long projects like Refugees Twice.

My War and Peace

The fight against darkness • Ukrainian photographer and visual artist Maxim Dondyuk has been following the socio-political events in his country for years. He made the photobook Culture of Confrontation, about the Maidan revolution in 2013, in which the central theme was the clash of different cultural systems. The cultural dichotomy between Soviet and European values remains at the heart of his work. Now Dondyuk, who got world fame with his interviews on CNN and his publications in Time magazine, is working on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, photographing cruel atrocities which are hard to behold.

Wooden Box

Gidropark as a love letter to grandma • The cover photo of the book Gidropark by New York-based Ukrainian-American photographer Yelena Yemchuk shows a young couple in the water, dressed in old-fashioned swimming costumes and having a good time. These pictures of the Soviet version of Coney Island were taken during the long period of the Ukraine’s transition away from Russia. “The project became a love letter to my grandma.”

Memories of perishing Ukraine • In Ukraine, older people, mostly women, live in remote, desolated, and neglected villages. They live their lives as they used to do for...