Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Roman Catholic Church (the main temple of the Kamianets diocese). Photo by: Filin (December 2012)
A photograph of a statue of the Virgin Mary in the "Garden of Gethsemane" in an apse at the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Photo taken by Filin in September 2012.
Ukrainian girl dances in front of a Banksy original in Bucha. "I got lucky on that one, the girl showed up at the perfect moment!" - quote Stephan Goss on Twitter.
In Soviet times, the panel "The Tree of Life" was part of the decor of a Mariupol restaurant called "Ukraine" (now - "Aristocrat"). The sketches were made by the mosaic makers themselves.
Boryviter, or a windhover, is a bird able to hover in the air for a long time. The concept of the authors was emotional bond between the panel and the sea view from the window next to it, the bond evoked by the name and colors. This panel is also located in the "Aristocrat," the restaurant in Mariupol.
Nova Kakhovka is a young town in the north of Tavria, built in the 1950s for the builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric complex. All the buildings here were built to a unified plan, constructed in haste, and they turned out to be monotonous and unexceptional. Then Hryhorii Dovzhenko, an artist and a follower of the Boichukist school, came to the town. Together with his colleagues, Dovzhenko created 80 unique carved panels which would come to decorate the walls of every building and change the face of the town. Later the Soviet press would criticise Dovzhenko for “architectural excesses”. Today his pieces are considered to be an artistic phenomenon which contemporaries named “stone vyshyvankas”. These days, the ornaments are under threat — not just from the passage of time, but from building insulation and the “modernisation” of the facades as well. Thanks to the actions of local activists, however, the “stone vyshyvankas” are gradually being restored to the town.