Mark Neville - Stop Tanks With Books (English)

About the book

British artist Mark Neville moved home and studio from London to live in Kyiv, Ukraine, last year. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border and the whole country on the cusp of war, Neville’s book project, Stop Tanks With Books, calls on the international community to urgently support Ukraine and help deter further Russian invasion.

Since 2015 Neville has been documenting life in Ukraine, with subjects ranging from holidaymakers on the beaches of Odessa, to the Roma communities on the Hungarian border, the churchgoers and nightclubbers of Kyiv, to both civilians and soldiers living on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.

Eighty of Neville’s photographs are brought together in this book, edited by David Campany, together with short stories about the conflict from Ukrainian novelist Lyuba Yakimchuk; research from the Centre of Eastern European Studies in Berlin about the 2.5 million Ukrainians already displaced by the war; and a call to action for the international community.

About the artist

Mark Neville’s work exists in different forms in many public and private collections, including those of the Archive of Modern Conflict, Arts Council of England, Kunstmuseum Bern, National Galleries of Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament. He has had major solo shows at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow, and the Imperial War Museum, London, and participated in group shows at Jeu de Paume, Paris, Tate Britain, and Haus Der Kunst, Munich.

His photo essay for the New York Times Magazine, Here Is London, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, and his monograph Fancy Pictures was nominated for both Time Magazine’s and the Aperture Foundation’s Photo Book of the Year 2017. His last book, Parade, a multilayered portrait of the farming community in Brittany, France, was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020.

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For more information on the book, you can consult the publisher's website, Nazraeli Press.