Fotograf Zone – Vitalii Halanzha

Underfoot, 2024–2025

In his project Underfoot, Ukrainian photographer Vitalii Halanzha responds to the everyday experience of life in Kyiv during the war. He focuses on what lies literally underfoot: the surface of the earth in city parks, fields, and areas surrounding populated areas. In black-and-white photographs, he captures details of the soil, vegetation, and stones, where fragments of military equipment, drone debris, shrapnel, or rocket remnants appear.

Halanzha does not stage these found objects, but documents them as he found them. In doing so, he creates a visual chronicle of traces of war that are not immediately visible, yet they fundamentally change people's relationship to their environment. In the series, the apparent calm of the landscape contrasts with the threat hidden beneath the surface—under our feet, alongside stones and leaves, there may also be unexploded ordnance and landmines, invisible dangers that make everyday movement uncertain.

Underfoot shows that the consequences of war are not only manifested in visible destruction, but also in the quiet details that remain in the landscape. It reminds us that even seemingly neutral ground can in fact be a scarred place that bears the physical and symbolic imprints of conflict.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a platform to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of it's selected artists and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.

METAMORPHOSIS
October 4–12, 2025
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Venue · Holešovice Market, Hall 13
Bubenské nábř. 306, 170 00, Prague 7 Holešovice
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Opening Hours · 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Vitalii Halanzha

is a Ukrainian photographer based in Kyiv. His practice focuses on the relationship between natural processes, society, and the enduring presence of warfare. Through a restrained visual language, he documents the psychological and environmental aftermath of conflict.

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