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“Light Through the Ruins” is a documentary photobook by Ukrainian photographer Yurii Veres about the consequences of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.

The book brings together over 300 photographs taken between 2022 and 2025 during journeys to war-affected regions of Ukraine — Kyiv region, Kharkiv region, Chernihiv region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Odesa region, Mykolaiv region, and Zaporizhzhia.

This is not a chronicle of combat, nor a report.

It is a visual narrative about people, memory, loss, resilience, and life that continues even among ruins.

The photographs are accompanied by short author’s texts.

A distinct visual layer of the book is formed by textile works of Mariia Posobchuk, Hanna Veres, and Valentyna Veres — several generations of women from one family. Their woven pieces and ornaments create a thread of family and cultural memory throughout the book.

Yurii Veres is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and musician, the frontman of the rock band “Kamianyi Hist.”

Since 2022, he has been working extensively in cities and villages affected by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are used in publications by international organizations, including the United Nations, with which he collaborates to document the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

Yurii Veres is the grandson of Hanna Veres, a People’s Artist of Ukraine, whose works were destroyed during a Russian strike on the museum in Ivankiv. This personal story became one of the conceptual threads of the book.