Serhii sent disposable film cameras to soldiers across different front lines, asking them to document their own lives — then return the cameras with a handwritten letter and a personal artifact. The result is an anthology of everyday experience, memory, and resistance: photographs, objects, and words that together form an intimate record of those defending Ukraine.
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Frontline rolls: photos, letters and artifacts from Ukrainian soldiers

Serhii sent disposable film cameras to soldiers across different front lines, asking them to document their own lives — then return the cameras with a handwritten letter and a personal artifact. The result is an anthology of everyday experience, memory, and resistance: photographs, objects, and words that together form an intimate record of those defending Ukraine.
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Serhii Melnychenko

professional photographer, Serhii Melnychenko
Ukrainian visual artist and photographer bridging conceptual, staged, and documentary photography. First Ukrainian to receive the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer (2017). Founder of MYPH (2018). Participant in 200+ exhibitions worldwide, including Paris Photo, Photo Basel, and Unseen. Works held in collections across Europe, Asia, and the US.