| | | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz
BUTSCHA, UKRAINE, 2022
Series: A Grave in the Garden
Fine Art Print, 60 x 50 cm / 100 x 80 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 AP | | | | | | A Grave in the Garden | | | | 17 January – 25 February 2023 | | | | Opening: Tuesday, 17 January, 6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz
SHEHYNI, UKRAINE, 2022
Series: A Grave in the Garden
Fine Art Print, 50 x 60 cm / 80 x 100 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 AP | | | | | | "When the war in Ukraine started on 24.02.2022, I was still in Afghanistan. The news shocked me, of course, and I immediately thought about how and when I could travel to Ukraine. On Sunday, 27 February, I set off together with other journalists in the direction of Kyiv.
Via Lviv we drove into the unknown, we didn‘t really know what the situation was like in Kyiv and were spontaneously allowed to accompany an escort with the famous waistcoats and helmets from Germany. We drove quickly and always with a police escort from the respective region. We stayed in and around Kyjiw for a fortnight and concentrated heavily on Irpin. Later we also visited Vasylkiw and other surrounding towns. | | | | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz
BUTSCHA, UKRAINE, 2022
Series: A Grave in the Garden
Fine Art Print, 50 x 60 cm / 80 x 100 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 AP | | | | | | But the places in the north remain strongly in my mind. Especially Butscha: one day after the liberation, we were almost the first journalists to visit the place. The people were happy about the end of the occupation, but the wounds of war were still present at every corner. Killed and executed Ukrainians lay everywhere on the streets, in houses, gardens or cellars. It was only after the liberation that the inhabitants of Butscha understood the extent of the terror and so there were many exhumations in gardens and burials in the cemetery every day."
Johanna-Maria Fritz officially lives in Berlin - but in reality she is on the road all year round. She studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule and has been a member of the agency of the same name since the beginning of 2019. Her photos have been published in Spiegel, Zeit, National Geographic and Newsweek China, among others, and most recently in Stern and GEO. She has been awarded the Inge Morath Prize, the Lotto Brandenburg Prize and the VG-Bild Scholarship for her work. | | | | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz
IRPIN, UKRAINE, 2022
Series: A Grave in the Garden
Fine Art Print, 50 x 60 cm / 80 x 100 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 AP | | | | | | She has exhibited all over the world: from Australia to France, Germany and Switzerland, as well as in China and the USA.
The works shown here were created in the first months of the war in the Kyiv region, in Irpin and Butscha. Since the beginning of November, Johanna has been travelling again in Ukraine to document the consequences of the war, most recently in the Donbas and at the turn of the year in Kyiv. | | | | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz
BUTSCHA, UKRAINE, 2022
Series: A Grave in the Garden
Fine Art Print, 50 x 60 cm / 80 x 100 cm
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