Process Projected
New Exhibition:
War Is Personal
Julia Kochetova
April 9 -April 22
Dear friends,
We are back with the sixth installment of the Process Projected exhibition series, the moving personal war photography of Julia Kochetova, which just won the open story regional World Press Photo award for Europe.
Julia and I connected through Instagram shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine and her intimately personal images found their way into the world through publications like Zeit, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
We have kept in touch since then and she was one of the first people I reached out to when Process Projected was becoming a reality. Her ongoing series "War Is Personal" is an original, tragic, terrifying, beautiful, hope-giving, soul-crushing first person narrative that takes us into the still on-going way in Ukraine.
In Julia’s own words: "I want Ukrainian photography of this war to be remembered as a first-person history. Not a drone flyover. Not a wide shot of graves and bombed-out streets. Don’t try to capture the overall picture of the entire war. It’s easy to lose the human in the wide shot."
This series is heavy, but not exploitative of the heaviness. In her work, Julia masterfully depicts life during wartime in a way that resonates deeply with our shared humanity. While we may not fully comprehend the experience of living through war, we can connect with the everyday details of life that Julia portrays—details that are both shattered by conflict and held even more tightly in the face of adversity.
Let me know if you pop by the gallery, I might be there or nearby.
Wesley Verhoeve, curator
Process Projected at What Is Happening Here Gallery
Reguliersdwarsstraat 73, Amsterdam
Opening Times: Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon until 6pm
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About The Artist
Julia Kochetova is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Ukrainian, reporting from Ukraine now. She studied journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University and Mohyla School of Journalism and participated in IDFA Academy.
Julia describes herself as part of the generation of the revolution and war. Her work has been shown worldwide and investigates the themes of home, post-traumatic stress disorder, and feminism.
As a freelancer, Julia covered the Maidan revolution (2013-2014), the annexation of Crimea (2014), and the Russia-Ukraine war (2014-now).
Her recent war coverage was presented by Adobe Lightroom and the Fotografiska Gallery. She has been published by Vice News, Der Spiegel, Zeit, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, FP, Reuters, NBC.
For more about Julia, please visit @seameer
About The Curator
Wesley Verhoeve is an Amsterdam-based photographer and curator.
His photography has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, National Geographic, the Washington Post, Wired, and many other publications.
As a curator, Wesley was responsible for 96 exhibits at the International Center of Photography in New York City, highlighting the works of over three hundred photographers from across fifty countries. Previous to ICP, Wesley served as the first curator-at-large for WeTransfer, curating works by over six hundred visual creatives.
Wesley Verhoeve also publishes Process, a weekly newsletter dedicated to photography and discovering one's voice. It was the first photography newsletter published on the Substack platform with over 10,000 subscribers.