Photo Exhibition on Life in Kyiv Metro During Russian Bombings Opens in Hamburg
The exhibition titled "Next Station Ukraine" showcasing photographs and posters depicting the lives of Ukrainians in the Kyiv metro during Russian bombings was officially opened today, July 12, at 10:30 local time in the U-Bahn Rathaus station passage in Hamburg, Germany.
The Ukrainian Consulate General in Hamburg announced the event on social media.
Supported by Ströer Media Brands and the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), the exhibition is initiated by the non-governmental media organization n-Ost.
The exhibits will be displayed in all available spaces, both in the Rathaus metro station and the tunnel leading to Jungfernstieg Street – Rathaustunnel, Übergang zum Jungfernstieg.
According to the organizers, the main message of this exhibition is as follows: "While we wait for the metro in Germany and travel normally by public transport, the world in Ukraine looks completely different. People use metro stations to protect themselves from Russian attacks. The photo exhibition aims to give Hamburg residents a visual understanding of the war situation in Kyiv and beyond."
The opening was attended by the Senator for Culture of Hamburg, Mr. Brosda, the CEO of Ströer, Mr. Stottz, the initiators of the idea, and the Consul General of Ukraine in Hamburg, Ms. Iryna Tybinka.
The exhibition will run throughout July and will move to other cities as a traveling exhibition.
Previously, in June, this photo exhibition took place in the Berlin metro, and before that, in May, it was presented in the Prague metro.
"Our goal is to inform people and connect Berliners with the reality in Ukraine," journalists state on the organization's website.
"This is not a campaign. This is our attempt to find a different environment for journalism and documentary photography. In these photographs, Berliners will see ordinary people who hide in stations and try to lead their daily lives there. These are families living in train cars, children and pets playing on platforms, elderly people who are constantly underground because it is harder for them to move, and musicians giving concerts at one of the stations."
It is worth noting that the "Born in Ukraine" poster exhibition by students of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts took place at the Württemberg Library, the largest library in Germany, located in Stuttgart, the capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.