Impact of War

The following project is a long-term examination of the consequences of war in Ukraine through visual documentation of its impact, highlighting the multitude of ways the conflict has been drastically changing the country and the lives of people affected by it. The documentation begins on the first night of full-scale war and uninterruptedly continues through all major events of the past three years of the conflict which could be considered a decisive moment in European history.

Patryk Jaracz

Patryk Jaracz is a documentary photographer born in 1990 in Poland. His work is focused on human rights and abuses of those rights, specifically in the region of Eastern Europe. While reporting on the subject during the 2020 fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus, Patryk was arrested and tortured at Okrestina 36 detention center in Minsk alongside thousands of illegally detained people.

On January 1, 2022, Patryk moved permanently to Kyiv, and since then has been working throughout Ukraine, continuously documenting events of the war and the lives impacted by it.

Until 2020, Patryk has been working as an art director and designer in London and Toronto before quitting in order to pursue work in photography and human rights issues.