Posts By: Kateryna Iakovlenko

Which Images Remain Invisible During Wartime?

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, June 22, 2026

Discussing Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, the editor of the Ukrainian translation, Olena Chervonyk, draws attention to an image absent from the book — the very image that transformed Barthes’s thinking about photography and its weight: the photograph of his mother in the Winter Garden. Chervonyk raises the debate that surrounds teh image: did it truly [...]

The Privacy of War

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]

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