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Ukraine: History Under Fire brings together Pierre Toutain-Dorbec’s photographs of war with texts examining Ukraine’s history and the broader geopolitical forces surrounding the conflict.
In Ukraine, Toutain-Dorbec has once again taken up his camera to bear witness to war. His photographs document the consequences of the Russian invasion for civilians—men, women, and children whose lives have been transformed in ways that may endure for decades.
Alongside these images, the author presents texts devoted to the history of Ukraine and his own analysis of the conflict. Informed by nearly sixty years of studying geopolitics, sometimes directly in the field, this perspective situates the present war within a longer historical continuum in which borders, identities, and power relations have repeatedly been contested.
Yet those portrayed are more than victims. They are survivors, revealing human strength and humanity in the face of death and destruction—people finding solace in music, art, family, neighbors, and complete strangers. The photographs show that wartime life also contains marriages, births, work, and the persistence of ordinary existence.
Together, photographs and texts form both a message of hope and an invitation to pause, reflect, and bear witness.
Paperback — 184 pages
Black-and-white photography, printed in color
5.5 × 8.5 in. (14 × 21.6 cm), portrait format
Perfect bound
ISBN 979-8-9890143-8-5
Ukraine: History Under Fire brings together Pierre Toutain-Dorbec’s photographs of war with texts examining Ukraine’s history and the broader geopolitical forces surrounding the conflict.
In Ukraine, Toutain-Dorbec has once again taken up his camera to bear witness to war. His photographs document the consequences of the Russian invasion for civilians—men, women, and children whose lives have been transformed in ways that may endure for decades.
Alongside these images, the author presents texts devoted to the history of Ukraine and his own analysis of the conflict. Informed by nearly sixty years of studying geopolitics, sometimes directly in the field, this perspective situates the present war within a longer historical continuum in which borders, identities, and power relations have repeatedly been contested.
Yet those portrayed are more than victims. They are survivors, revealing human strength and humanity in the face of death and destruction—people finding solace in music, art, family, neighbors, and complete strangers. The photographs show that wartime life also contains marriages, births, work, and the persistence of ordinary existence.
Together, photographs and texts form both a message of hope and an invitation to pause, reflect, and bear witness.
Paperback — 184 pages
Black-and-white photography, printed in color
5.5 × 8.5 in. (14 × 21.6 cm), portrait format
Perfect bound
ISBN 979-8-9890143-8-5