The Road Beyond

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Photography by Ruslan Hrushchak
Poetry by Iryna Tsilyk
Hardcover
225 x 230 mm
120 pages + 20 pages pergamon paper
Language: Ukrainian or English

The respective language version includes English or Ukrainian handwritten poems on pergamon paper.

Translated from Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky
Design and editing by Misha Kominek, Ruslan Hrushchak

ISBN 978-3-9819824-9-7

The Road Beyond is a book of peace, says photographer Ruslan Hrushchak about his work. The timing of the publication of his pictures and the poems of Iryna Tsilyk creates a stark irony: the unrest in eastern Ukraine, which has gone on for years, has turned into open war.

Hrushchak, born in Ukraine, has been living in Germany for 20 years. Tsilyk lives and works in Kyiv; by juxtaposing their outstanding art they have created a deeply inspiring and moving book of poems and pictures about the people of Ukraine. In depicting culture and human life, it captures the tension between the transient and the eternal in a highly visual and poetic way.

Photographer Ruslan Hrushchak’s work has received international awards, including being a finalist of the Royal Photographic Society in 2018 and first prize winner of the Life Framer edition IV in 2017, judged by Steve McCurry. The Road Beyond is his first photo book.

Iryna Tsilyk is an internationally acclaimed writer and filmmaker. Today she works as a director. Her poems, songs and prose texts have been translated into German, English, French, Czech, Lithuanian and Polish and have been presented at the Berlin Poetry Festival, the Leipzig Book Fair, the “Lyric for All” conference in Salzburg and the Vilnius Book Fair, among others.