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The project was born in the team of the Public Interest Journalism Lab in cooperation and with the support of the Institute for Human Sciences (Austria), the National Endowment for Democracy, and The International Renaissance Foundation.
Cooperation between PIJL and the IWM on Life in War falls within the overarching framework of the IWM’s Documenting Ukraine project. This project, launched in Spring 2022, supports professionals based in Ukraine as they work on documentation projects that establish and preserve a factual record of the Russo-Ukrainian War or bring meaning to events through artistic interpretation and intellectual reflection.
The head of the project is Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, and journalist specializing in conflict coverage. She is the co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, as well as of The Reckoning Project, which is specializing on documenting war crimes. Since the beginning of the Russian aggression, she regularly contributes to a number of international media outlets: The Guardian, Die Zeit, The Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Washington Post. From 2015 to 2020 she was the Head of Hromadske TV. Nataliya is the author of the books “The Lost Island. Book of reports from the occupied peninsula” and “Tahrir Maidan” about the events of the Arab Spring.
Editor-in-Chief is Evgeniy Safonov, a Ukrainian journalist, media manager, founder of the cultural and social magazine Bird in Flight, historical magazine Was.Media, co-founder and CEO of the photo archive of the Russian-Ukrainian war Ukrainian Warchive, founder and CEO of Keep Going Foundation for supporting entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Before the war he also developed independent cultural projects, including the international contemporary photography contest BiF Prize and the Ukrainian National Photo Award Ukrsuchphoto and numerous exhibitions of documentary photography. Before the war he also developed independent cultural projects, including the international contemporary photography contest BiF Prize and the Ukrainian National Photo Award Ukrsuchphoto. Member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine and the International Federation of Journalists.
The director is Anna Tsygyma, a documentary filmmaker and the head director of the Public Interest Journalism Lab. She covers the war against Ukraine since 2014, especially in the Donbass and Crimea. At the beginning of the aggression, she filmed the stories of the Ukrainians who fled from Bucha and Irpin, as well as life after the occupation throughout the country. Her films on human rights and political prisoners won numerous awards in Ukraine. She was the main director of the Hromadske TV.
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