J.T. Blatty: The Ukraine Project
Ukrainian Institute of America
Front line / Peace Life: Ukraine’s
Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War
Featuring J.T. Blatty
We are delighted to announce J.T. Blatty’s work “The Ukraine Project.” This series reveals the generation of citizens militia of the war in eastern Ukraine and their stories of returning to a marginalized existence, their supposed “peace-life.” Blatty traveled to Ukraine to capture a war that is undocumented. Many of Ukrainians are mostly volunteers and wanted to show how hard it is for some people to return from the combat zone to a normal life which is called the “peace-life” in their terms. Each portrait comes with a story of each person and their experience.
“I came to Ukraine as a U.S. combat veteran and photojournalist two years ago, drawn to the community of the soldier, inspired to document and preserve a form a patriotism that was so far from my own reality of fighting wars, under contracted obligations. But over time, the project became far more than making the invisible visible and the unheard heard. There is a common thread amongst most war veterans around the world, an ultimate realization that in our wars, we were pawns in a larger agenda that we might never understand. The volunteers were not pawns in 2014, but now their story needs to be told more than ever, because their story is so far from over.” - J.T. Blatty
Blatty’s Exhibition “Frontline/Peace Life: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War” is being held at the Ukraine Institute of America. Each print is on our Dye Sublimated Aluminum ranging from 8x12” to 20x30” mounted to our Black Sintra with the Float Backing.
“Frontline/Peace Life: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War” is running from
January 16th -March 25th
Opening Reception March 6th 7 - 9 pm
The Art Institute is Open Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6 pm
Located at The Ukraine Institute of America
2 East 79th St
New York, NY 10075
Photography
About the Artist
Jenn Tuero (J. T.) Blatty was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1978. She graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2000 and served six years as an active-duty U.S. Army officer, deploying with the first troops into Afghanistan following 9/11 and again into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After completing her service to the military and inspired by a love of capturing life, people and her personal experiences with disposable cameras, notebooks, and pens, she pursued photography and writing as her career. She currently resides in New Orleans, where she returned in 2010, after a photo internship with National Geographic Traveler.