Authors of the concept and project leads: Svitlana Oslavska, Anna Ilchenko
Design and layout: Halya Verheles
Sketch and photo scanning: Oksana Hrushanska-Vlasova, Liudmyla Petrushko
Literary editor (Ukrainian texts): Anastasiia Levkova
English translation: Kate Tsurkan
Proofreader: Yuliia Kolesnikova
Prepress image preparation: Yana Staryk
Printed by Publish Pro, Kyiv, Ukraine
About the authors and the project
Anna Ilchenko is a Ukrainian documentary photographer, videographer, and documentary filmmaker. Her interests are focused on human stories and documentary way of telling them. Anna is a co-author of a documentary “Homefront” (Zeppers production, Amsterdam) about a large family that flees from the war, searching for home.
Svitlana Oslavska is a Ukrainian journalist, writer and culture researcher. She is the author of three books of literary reportage, and her texts have been featured in Ukrainian and international outlets, including Voxeurop, Coda, and TIME.
Anna and Svitlana are sisters, who were born and raised in Sievierodonetsk, which is now occupied by Russia. Since 2020, they have been working together as a creative collective old khata project.
Old khata project is a documentary collective that focuses on traditional culture, villages in Ukraine and produces video and photoprojects and publishes books. More about the collective here. Their first book is Old Khata Book. A Photo Book about Houses and People. Kvitky. The Big Book of Traditional Ukrainian House Paintings is their second book.
