While I’ve loved reading since I was a little kid, I do it quite a bit less often in the past 15 years or so. And when I do, for the sake of convenience I tend to prefer digital versions – they don’t take up extra space, you can easily read them when you commute or take them with you on travels. But in recent years, especially as I grew more interested in more visually rich books and rekindled my love for photo books, I’ve been grabbing occasional physical copies. With the start of the full scale Russian genocidal invasion of Ukraine, I’ve felt additionally compelled to grab more books from Ukrainian publishers. Which led me to discover just how much high quality publishing is happening right now that I was completely missing, with a few of older and established and several promising up and coming publishers providing content that feels extremely satisfying to own physically. In this post I wanted to focus on some of the examples. I’m focusing on Ukraїner, a project focused on bringing photographic coverage of modern Ukrainian life, and the books they’ve published because I happened to get them all and liked the majority of them.
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