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Pricelist
Charity Print Sale 10 – 17 March 2022
Ukraine, A Photographic Dispatch
Sam Asaert
On 24 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ST . VINCENTS
launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The invasion
is still ongoing causing hundreds of civilian casualties Kleine Markt 13
and forcing more than a million Ukrainians to flee their 2000 Antwerp
home and country to face an uncertain future. Belgium
In solidarity with Ukraine, St. Vincents in collaboration Thursday — Saturday
with Antwerp based photographer, Sam Asaert, Noon — 6PM
contributed a series of photo-journalistic prints Or by Appointment
taken in the region in aims to help raise funds for the
Ukrainian cause. www.stvincents.co
hello@stvincents.co
All proceeds from the sale will be donated to the +32 (0) 492 31 41 59
Red Cross and the Ukrainian Scout Association for
humanitarian and medical aid.
Special thanks to photography lab Foto Schelfhout
who contributed to the cause and subsidised the
print of the exhibition works.
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Sam Asaert
Biography
Sam Asaert (b. 1987) is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer.
With a strong background in documentary journalism, Sam uses his
artistic craft to explore the world around us and the conflicts within.
Aiming to create understanding and empathy, his documentary work
provides an insight into people’s lives and their plights. With a long-term
immersive approach, Sam assimilates as much as possible into the reality
of his subject – learning Russian to work in Eastern Europe and Farsi to
work in Iran – resulting in intimate and dignified images that hold both a
strong artistic vision as well as informative journalistic importance.
His work has been published, broadcast, exhibited and awarded
internationally.
(www.samasaert.com)
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Pricelist
Price
Works are signed and sold in an open edition. Prices include 21% VAT and are excluding
shipping. Works are available in the following formats:
[A] Print __________ Eur 50
9x13cm Noritsu print on Standard Matte Photographique Paper
[B] Framed Print __________ Eur 150
9x13cm Noritsu print on Standard Matte Photographique Paper Mounted on Crème
Beige Passepartout in 18x24cm Natural Brut Wooden Frame
Lead Time / Delivery
The sale ends on the 17th March 2022 after which all orders will be processed. for delivery.
Standard delivery estimates are as follows:
[A] Single print __________ 1 week
[B] Framed print __________ 2 weeks
Sales Enquiries
For enquiries please contact hello@stvincents.co / +32 (0) 492 31 41 59 / @stvincents
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[01] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
The kitchen of Maria and her husband Michail. Maria and Michail,
illegally returned to their house in the village of Paryshev, which was
completed evacuated – as was every other village in the Exclusion
Zone after the nuclear disaster. They feed themselves of what they
can grow in their yard and occasionally receive some food packages
from soldiers or scientists. [digital photograph]
[02] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Maria sits in the small living room of their little house inside the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. “I have seen war two times. I was 6 years
old in 1941 when the war began, which took my father in 1943. And I
was 51 when the war against the atom erupted.” [digital photograph]
[03] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Maria helps her husband Michail to the outhouse. In the days follow-
ing the nuclear disaster, Mikhail worked as a contractor pouring as-
phalt roads throughout the area in order to facilitate the clean-up. 25
years later, he has lost his voice to laryngeal cancer and he can no
longer stand or walk without assistance. He spends most of the day
bedridden. [digital photograph]
[04] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Maria sighs at her plight. “Oh, it really used to be such a wonderful-
place here. But now it is a forbidden place. I wonder why? This is my
home. I built it. My soul resides here.” [digital photograph]
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[05] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Living alone in an old farm house, Galina is the only person left in what
once was a thriving farming community now lost to the nuclear zone.
"I live alone here now. It is very cold outside and I heat the house every
day. I stay inside, here, in this house, alone. But I am not afraid. I fear
neither the radiation nor the wolves. Mostly, the people that are still
scattered about [the Zone], we look like wolves ourselves. I see you
looking at me now, wondering if I am an old lady or some kind of
animal...” [digital photograph]
[06] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Galina takes a moment, leaning on her walking stick in the courtyard
of her farmhouse, and reflects on the past. “We started experiencing
aches in our bones, pressure in our knees and legs. We didn’t pay any
attention to it. My husband died six year ago.” [digital photograph]
[07] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Galina sits in her small living room. Despite her isolation and the
complete desolation outside, she has managed to maintain a very
cosy atmosphere – surrounding herself with family photos old and
new. She does, however, keep an axe by the door in case of wolves.
[digital photograph]
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[08] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Walking passed Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor building 4, is
one of the approximately 3.000 state employees that work inside
the Exclusion Zone to monitor the conditions around the nuclear
power plant and further its decommission. It was this reactor that
exploded on April 26, 1986 and which was subsequently covered by a
steel and concrete sarcophagus structure – seen in this photograph,
but replaced in 2016 by a new confinement structure. Much of the
radioactive material is still present inside and around the old reactor
vessel. [digital photograph]
[09] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
The silhouette of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with its now
tragically iconic reactor building number 4 chimney, looms over the
desolated city of Pripyat. The city had approximately 50.000 inhabi-
tants when it was evacuated on April 27, 1986 – the day after the ex-
plosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, which is less than 3km away
from the city center. [digital photograph]
[10] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
One of the central squares of Pripyat, photographed from the top
floor of the former Polissya Hotel. On the right you can see the aban-
doned community center “Energetik,” which housed a theater, library
and swimming pool. In the background stand the empty Soviet style
apartment buildings. Nature is steadily encroaching and packs of an-
imals – both wild and formerly domesticated – now roam around the
city. [digital photograph]
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[11] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
1980’s Soviet toy cars left behind on the window sill of one of the
abandoned day care centers in the evacuated city of Pripyat. With
most of the windows long shattered and the concrete structures
slowly corroding away, these human artifacts are an eerie reminder
of the human tragedy that unfolded here. [digital photograph]
[12] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
The corridor floor of one of the abandoned hospitals in the evacuated
city of Pripyat. [digital photograph]
[13] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Shattered window and abandoned bottles overlooking the evacuated
apartment blocks of the empty city. [digital photograph]
[14] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
A traditional Ukrainian homestead stands abandoned and crumbling
in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which has a 10km
radius around the nuclear power plant. Some 50.000 people were
evacuated from the zone. [digital photograph]
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[15] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone April 2011
Ivan and his wife Maria stand in front of their home inside the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In 2012, some 190 Samosely – which is
what the residents of the Exclusion Zone are referred to – still lived
inside the zone. [digital photograph]
[16] Noviy Korogod April 2011
A young boy ponders his toys. The grandson of Chernobyl evacuees,
this boy lives in Noviy Korogod (New Korogod), which is the
replacement town built outside the Nuclear Exclusion Zone to house
the evacuees from the village of Korogod, which is inside the zone.
[digital photograph]
[17] Noviy Korogod April 2011
Many Ukrainians that were displaced by the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster still yearn to return to their former ways of life in their old
villages. Often an almost debilitating melancholia hangs over the
villages to which they were resettled – such as that of Noviy Korogod
– affecting even those that were not alive during the evacuation.
[digital photograph]
[18] Noviy Korogod April 2011
Nina, an evacuee from Chernobyl, sits in front of her replacement
home inside the village of Noviy Korogod. She often reminisces
about the good old days of life in what is now the Chernobyl Exclu-
sion Zone.[digital photograph]
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[19] Noviy Korogod April 2011
An elderly woman sits quietly inside her home, after a long morning
of harvesting and sorting potatoes. [digital photograph]
[20] Noviy Korogod April 2011
The agrarian tradition of self-sufficiency has all but disappeared in
many parts of Ukraine. Often due to sheer necessity, however, there
remains inside many Ukrainian souls a very strong connection to the
soil they consider theirs, which is why so many Chernobyl evacuees
yearn so deeply to return. [digital photograph]
[21] Noviy Korogod April 2011
Husband and wife enjoy a quiet moment outside their home. Former
Chernobyl residents are often plagued by worry about the long-term
consequences of the disaster and the subsequent evacuation on
their health. [digital photograph]
[22] Noviy Korogod April 2011
Having made her replacement house into a warm home, this woman
remembers the days and weeks after the disaster with a heavy heart.
Her husband and her were called upon to assist in the clean-up of the
nuclear explosion. [digital photograph]
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[23] Noviy Korogod April 2011
Proudly showing her Liquidator Medal, awarded by the Soviet
government to all civil and military personnel who were called upon
to deal with the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
From shoveling highly radioactive material in shifts of mere seconds,
to exterminating domestic animals left in the evacuated areas, the
significant role these liquidators played in mitigating the effects of the
disaster has earned them heroic praise. [digital photograph]
[24] Ukrainian heartland April 2011
A typical thoroughfare running through a Ukrainian countryside
village. [digital photograph]
[25] Kyiv February 2014
Saint Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery shimmers during a lull in
the animosities of the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv. [35mm negative
photograph]
[26] Kyiv February 2014
Helmets of Ukrainian civilian revolutionaries lay scattered about
Khreschatyk Street, one of the Ukrainian capital’s main thoroughfares.
[35mm negative photograph]
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[27] Kyiv February 2014
Looking down onto the Maidan encampments on Independence
Square in the heart of Kyiv. Revolutionary Ukrainians had transformed
downtown Kyiv into a barricaded encampment, which the
government forces loyal to President Yanukovych would violently try
to disband. [35mm negative photograph]
[28] Kyiv February 2014
Hrushevskoho Street after a night of clashes between the civilian
revolutionaries and the governmental berkut special forces. The
civilian-made barricades – compiled of automobiles, tires, wood –
were frequently set alight in the clashes, while the government
forces also resorted to using water canons on the revolutionaries.
With temperatures around -20 Celsius, the streets had turned to ice…
[35mm negative photograph]
[29] Kyiv February 2014
Two revolutionaries, guarding their side of the barricades, enjoy a
cigarette during a long pause in clashes. The government special
forces amassed on the other side of the barricades would often
engage in taunts with the civilians inside the barricaded city center
– shouting obscenities or singing songs back and forth. [35mm
negative photograph]
[30] Kyiv February 2014
A lone revolutionary Kievite stands guard on the barricades
separating the civilian held city center of Kyiv and the government
occupied outskirts. In the foreground the Monument to legendary
Soviet/Ukrainian football player and manager Valeriy Lobanovskyi, at
the entrance to the Dynamo Stadium, has been completed frozen
over as a result of attacks with water canons by the Yanukovych
governmental forces. [35mm negative photograph]
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[31] Kyiv February 2014
Close to one million Ukrainians took to the streets in February, 2014,
demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych, after he
refused to ratify closer ties to the European Union. [35mm negative
photograph]
[32] Kyiv February 2014
Ukrainian riot police forces, standing on guard on the other side of
the revolutionary barricades, play a game of football in order to stay
warm in between guard duties. These officers had been dispatched
from Odessa and Crimea. [35mm negative photograph]
[33] Kyiv February 2014
Revolutionaries warm themselves around a fire barrel while grabbing a
quick bite. These civilians were guarding the barricades at Instytutska
Street, where days later – on February 20 th – many revolutionaries
would be fatally shot by snipers. [35mm negative photograph]
[34] Kyiv February 2014
An old army helmet and a baseball bat were the weaponry brought
to Kiev by a Ukrainian man participating in the Maidan Revolution
– an event, which would turn extremely violent, and which was to
unfold in true David and Goliath fashion. The civilian revolutionaries
often resorting to basic and improvised weaponry in the face of
well-equipped governmental modern fire power. [35mm negative
photograph]
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[35] Kyiv February 2014
Government special forces are lined up outside the revolutionary
barricades in Hrushevskoho Street. [35mm negative photograph]
[36] Kyiv February 2014
Ukrainian men that travelled to their capital to join the revolution.
These men were training close combat techniques taught by several
veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war. These men are members of the
ultranationalist organization Patriot of Ukraine and the right-wing
Pravyi Sektor (Right Sector). Both parties would play a big role in the
Revolution, ultimately leading to the removal of President Yanukovych,
but have lost popular support since. [35mm negative photograph]
[37] Kyiv February 2014
The charred entrance to the Dynamo Stadium in downtown Kyiv
seen early morning after a day of clashes. The corner of Petrivs’ka
Alley and Krushevckoho Street was a hotspot as it was a close contact
point between the revolutionaries and government troops. [35mm
negative photograph]
[38] Kyiv February 2014
The final demarcation line between the revolutionary Maidan and the
government held part of Kyiv, at the beginning of Instytutska Street.
Several revolutionaries are warming themselves around a fire barrel,
under relative cover provided by stacked tires. [35mm negative
photograph]
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[39] Kyiv February 2014
Despite temperatures far below freezing, this Ukrainian man seems
lost in thought, pondering the destruction the revolutionary violence
inflicted upon downtown Kyiv. [35mm negative photograph]
[40] Kyiv February 2014
A revolutionary braces the cold and climbs onto the barricade to
investigate the position of government troops gathered on the other
side. [35mm negative photograph]
[41] Kyiv February 2014
Hotel Ukraine, overlooking Independence Square in downtown
Kyiv, seen through the wooden barricades set up around the
perimeter of the encampments on the square, housing thousands of
revolutionaries that had travelled from all over Ukraine to take part in
the revolution. [35mm negative photograph]
[42] Kyiv February 2015
Ukrainian children climb on top of a Russian tank. The tank was
captured in the Eastern Donbas region, where Putin-backed forces
were in armed conflict with Ukrainian troops. [digital photograph]
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[43] Kyiv February 2015
A child inside a stroller ponders the spot were, one year prior, a
revolutionary was killed during the Ukrainian Revolution. Those
revolutionaries killed by government or security troops during the
Maidan Revolution, are collectively known as the Heavenly Hundred.
[digital photograph]
[44] Kyiv February 2015
A young Kievite records a jubilant selfie-video beneath a large
Ukrainian flag unfolded on Khreschatyk Street during a pro-European
demonstration on the one year commemoration of the Maidan
Revolution. [digital photograph]
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