News
January 2012
Grozny: Nine Cities project was published in Russian for the first time in Lenta.ru /one of the leading media portals in Russia/ special project Country that ceased to exist. For the first time we’ve also presented there a number of the interviews taken for the project, including the one with Akhmed Zakayev, one of the best-known Chechen exiles.
December 2011
Crowdfunding: Grozny: Nine Cities project on Emphasis. Please, be a backer for our Grozny: Nine Cities project!
Our goal is to raise $7.500 to fund our next trip to Grozny. The result of the project will be shown in an installation consisting of a two and three screen multimedia essay and prints, a web-documentary, and a book.
November 2011
Maria Morina's 5.5 minutes film Nizhny Tagil Youth, part of the ongoing video&photo project, exploring life of young people in one of the industrial centres, located on the virtual border between Europe and Asia, was selected for The Rencontres Internationales and screened on November, 18 in Paris, Centre Pompidou.
October 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities is the Grand Prize Winner in the Multimedia Category of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011.
Grozny: 9 cities 5 minutes multimedia was shown at the screening in the first International Bursa Photo Festival.
September 2011
Oksana Yushko's project Kenozero Dreams is presented in Backlight Photo Festival, Territories of Desire - Contemporary Photography from Russia, September 17, 2011 - November 3, 2011, Tampere Art Museum, Finland.
The Aftermath Project is selling prints from 2010 grant winners and finalists to help raise funds for our $15,000 NEA matching grant for publishing this year's book, "War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four", which is also featuring Grozny: Nine Cities project.
Prints by Maria Morina, Olga Kravets, Oksana Yushko, and many others including Sara Terry and Marcus Bleasdale, are available.
Download the Annual Fundraiser Brochure to view prints and information.
June 2011
We became finalists of The Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation for International Photography Grant with our joint project Grozny: Nine Cities. Please visit the website to take a look at the selected projects in The Hall of Excellence.
The work of Verso Images members is showcased at the Photographicon: Russia Through the Lens exhibition in the University of Wales, Newport.
May 2011
On the day when Europe's most famous war criminal Ratko Mladic's capture was announced the project Olga Kravets has done about him was published in New York Times Lens blog.
April 2011
A short multimedia work from Grozny: Nine Cities project has been nominated for Moving Image Award - People's Choice, you can vote for us here.
March 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities project is showcased at the New York Festival Provocation exhibition and also it was screened at Palm Springs Photo Festival in US as on of the finalists of 2011 Slide show contest.
Verso collective participates in Format Festival'11 in Derby, UK, Mapping the Flâneur installation.
February 2011
Grozny: Nine Cities Project was published in Rear View Mirror Magazine with an essay by Christian Jennings.