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Marysia Myanovska

Marysia Myanovska is a Ukrainian photographer, born Feb. 15, 1990, in Kyiv, currently splitting her time between Kyiv, Ukraine, and Krakow, Poland. A graduate of the Victor Marushchenko School of Modern Photography, she focuses on projects about Ukrainian youth and gender, exploring the relationship between territory and the people who inhabit it. Her work has been featured in Camera Austria, Photonews Germany (cover story), Vogue Ukraine, Bird in Flight magazine, The Calvert Journal, and Vice. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Projector Foundation grant for women in Ukraine.

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Oksana "Ksena" Rubanyak on her way to her unit's position, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, in Aug. 2024.

'Miniature universes:' The personal spaces of women at war (Photos)

by Marysia Myanovska
War has long been framed as the domain of men, reinforced by language, imagery, and tradition. But after Russia invaded Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in 2014, Ukrainian women took up arms, proving that in the fight for national sovereignty, it is not gender but loyalty to one’s country that defines a soldier. Photographer Marysia Myanovska’s series “Zone of Seismic Activity” captures the role of women in Ukraine’s Armed Forces — where over 70,000 women now serve today — not only through