News
March 2012
Grozny: Nine Cities 5 minutes multimedia is showcased in the FOLiLABS(Museo de Fotografía Lima's experimental containers within different public spaces of Lima) during the First Biennale of Photography of Lima organised by the Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima and Centro de la Imagen from 19th of March to 19th of April 2012.
February 2012
10 pictures portfolio from Grozny: Nine Cities project was published in PDN Photo of the Day.
January 2012
We raised $8.590 through a campaign on Emphas.is, while our goal was $7.500. The budget covered reporting costs including travel, film, and accommodation for a two weeks to Chechnya for three people. As the project is overfunded, it will contribute towards the another trip to Grozny. Here is the list of backers and the list of people who helped us with the organization of the campaign on Emphasis. Thanks a lot to all of you!
Now it’s time for us to move on to research for the upcoming trip that you all made possible. We are opening the making-of zone soon on the Emphas.is website for our backers and will be happy to hear any suggestions and questions from you about what should be there, you can live comments on our facebook page.
Projects Kenozero Dreams by Oksana Yushko and Just Like Old Times by Victor Yuliev were published in a new issue of Private magazine, #55 - Rurality now.
Grozny: Nine Cities project was published in Russian for the first time in Lenta.ru /one of the leading media portals in Russia/ special project Country that ceased to exist. For the first time we’ve also presented there a number of the interviews taken for the project, including the one with Akhmed Zakayev, one of the best-known Chechen exiles.
December 2011
War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four featuring the work of 2010 grant winners Danny Wilcox Frazier Surviving Wounded Knee and Monika Bulaj Nur/Light: Afghanistan, Not the War Only, and photo essays by the 2010 finalists: Jessica Hines My Brother’s War; Helena Schaetzle The Time in Between – 4,756 Kilometers of Memory; and Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, and Oksana Yushko Grozny: Nine Cities is published.
FotoDepartament Gallery presents Alexander Sedelnikov’s personal exhibition See You Later - a result of three-years work. Pictures taken in Saint-Petersburg and Chelyabinsk region, don’t document what is going on, don’t clarify the situation and history, but rather give a strange feeling. “See you” – a word that we pronounce to postpone the inevitable and accept our permanent existence under the eyes of another, FotoDepartament Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia, December, 17 - January, 27.
Crowdfunding: Grozny: Nine Cities project on Emphas.is. Please, be a backer for our Grozny: Nine Cities project.
Our goal is to raise $7.500 to fund our next trip to Grozny. The result of the project will be shown in an installation consisting of a two and three screen multimedia essay and prints, a web-documentary, and a book.
Olga Kravets as a recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship has just graduated from London College of Communication MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography with a distinction and has presented her new project The Shelter as installation.
November 2011
Maria Morina's 5.5 minutes film Nizhny Tagil Youth, part of the ongoing video&photo project, exploring life of young people in one of the industrial centres, located on the virtual border between Europe and Asia, was selected for The Rencontres Internationales and screened on November, 18 in Paris, Centre Pompidou.
October 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities is the Grand Prize Winner in the Multimedia Category of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011.
Grozny: 9 cities 5 minutes multimedia was shown at the screening in the first International Bursa Photo Festival.
September 2011
Oksana Yushko's project Kenozero Dreams is presented in Backlight Photo Festival, Territories of Desire - Contemporary Photography from Russia, September 17, 2011 - November 3, 2011, Tampere Art Museum, Finland.
The Aftermath Project is selling prints from 2010 grant winners and finalists to help raise funds for our $15,000 NEA matching grant for publishing this year's book, "War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four", which is also featuring Grozny: Nine Cities project.
Prints by Maria Morina, Olga Kravets, Oksana Yushko, and many others including Sara Terry and Marcus Bleasdale, are available.
Download the Annual Fundraiser Brochure to view prints and information.
June 2011
We became finalists of The Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation for International Photography Grant with our joint project Grozny: Nine Cities. Please visit the website to take a look at the selected projects in The Hall of Excellence.
The work of Verso Images members is showcased at the Photographicon: Russia Through the Lens exhibition in the University of Wales, Newport.
May 2011
On the day when Europe's most famous war criminal Ratko Mladic's capture was announced the project Olga Kravets has done about him was published in New York Times Lens blog.
April 2011
A short multimedia work from Grozny: Nine Cities project has been nominated for Moving Image Award - People's Choice, you can vote for us here.
March 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities project is showcased at the New York Festival Provocation exhibition and also it was screened at Palm Springs Photo Festival in US as on of the finalists of 2011 Slide show contest.
Verso collective participates in Format Festival'11 in Derby, UK, Mapping the Flâneur installation.
February 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities Project was published in Rear View Mirror Magazine with an essay by Christian Jennings.