Vsevolod KazarinBio
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Vsevolod Kazarin (he/him) is a Kyiv-based researcher, photographer, and publisher.

His practice combines photographic creation with research into visual practices and their role in constructing daily reality, from frontline mobile imagery to late Soviet visual culture, war, and masculinity. Working at the intersection of publishing, technology, and experimental humanities, he investigates social and political structures shaped by conflict and political transformation.

In 2022, Kazarin co-founded Solomiya print magazine, which has since evolved into a broader platform encompassing publishing, research, and curatorial practices. Operating between Kyiv, Berlin, and other cities, the Solomiya art collective focuses on underrepresented discourses, organizing public programs and exhibitions across the continent.





Type ProjectYear
Performance Pilgrimages Diary: Performing the Camera Roll2026

Writing
Sixty Seconds to Swallow 2026

Writing
Beyond Representation:
Why Should We Have A Closer Look At Military Mobile Snapshots?
2026

Visual Research
Starman2025

Photography
Article 65 
2024

Photography
Unstable Equilibrium 2023

PhotographySurviving Bucha  2022
Photography
Portraits from Kyiv2022




Publication



Year

Solomiya No. 6 State of the Nation2026

Solomiya No. 5 After Now
2025

Solomiya No. 4 The Environmental Issue
2025

Solomiya No. 3 The Last Issue? 
2024

Solomiya No. 2 The Means of Resistance 
2023

Solomiya No. 1 War but Art
2022

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“For people living in occupied territories, life is a matter of merely existing. Hovewer, moving away is no easy task. Imagine your family, and generations preceding it, had lived in the Donbas all their life, and suddenly you’re forced to start your life from zero.”

[...]

“In the first two years there was hryvnia [Ukrainian currency] in Donetsk, there were Ukrainian goods, and the borders were open. Some Ukrainian companies still operated in Donetsk. The process of separation was very slow but steady. But there was no immediate ocupation.”

[...]

“Many of my friends don’t know anything about Crimea’s colonial history. They can’t say hello and thank you in my language, It hurts me a lot.”



Unstable Equilibrium

The project was realized together with Sebastian Wells for Solomiya No. 2 

2023 











A series of stories of young people from Kyiv who grew up in the now occupied territories in the south and east of Ukraine.







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