"Wir hatten ein normales Leben. Ukraine 2004–2024" Buchpräsentation

In the organizer's words:

The book presentation at the St. Nikolai Memorial, where the exhibition of the same name was presented for the first time in May 2022, will be framed by a panel discussion with experts who will discuss the developments in Ukraine in recent months and talk about their experiences.

In June 2025, a catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition "We had a normal life. Ukraine 2004-2024", which was conceived in 2022 by the Focus agency and the Hamburg State Center for Political Education. The exhibition then went on tour and was presented at three other locations in cooperation with the state centers in Berlin and Brandenburg. It reached tens of thousands of visitors.

The book published at the end of the project contains over 100 photos by more than 20 international photographers, allowing a multi-perspective view of the conflict and its origins. By combining current reporting and archive material, the book offers an insight into both life in Ukraine and the effects of the war there. In addition to the images, the book also contains additional texts from the fields of history and image research.

The almost 200-page, German-English catalog contains over 120 illustrations as well as a historical essay by Prof. em. Dr. Frank Golczewski on the Russian-Ukrainian relationship up to the outbreak of open war in 2022 and a conversation between the curator of the exhibition, David Rojkowski, and the Ukrainian image researcher Kateryna Radchenko on the development of Ukrainian photography since 2022. The publication will be published by Hartmanns Projects in Stuttgart at the beginning of July and will then be available in the Infoladen of the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung in Hamburg.

Book launch and discussion with Vincent Haiges (photographer/war reporter), [[xx]] (journalist) and [[xx]] ([[xx]])

Moderation: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann

Free admission.

Responsible: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann