The Shepeliuk Archive: Re-examining Ukrainian Industrial Heritage Through Soviet Photojournalism

谢佩柳克档案馆：通过苏联新闻摄影重新审视乌克兰工业遗产

• 批准号: 2884161
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2884161
• 关键词: Shepeliuk; Archive; Re; examining; Ukrainian

The Oleksii Shepeliuk archive is the focus of this PhD, which will examine Ukrainian industrial photographic practice. The archive has never been studied and will provide critical insights into Soviet-era industrial history and heritage, which exists today in a grey zone between abandonment and extinction. Oleksii Shepeliuk was a photographer and editor for the Kyiv Lepse Factory newspaper from 1963-1970. His corpus of work, consisting of photography, journalism and accompanying notes, offers a rare glimpse into the practices of industrial self-documentation, a little-studied area of Soviet Ukrainian visual and cultural history. My PhD will examine Shepeliuk's photographic archive alongside analysis of his texts, including his thesis, written in Ukrainian at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and entitled "Photo-Reportage - An Incisive Weapon of Propaganda. To contextualise this material, I will interview former factory workers and their families, and compare the Lepse archives with institutions such as Darnytskyi Sewing Plant and Kyiv Motorcycle Factory. These archival collections are digitally accessible via the "Un/Archiving Post/Industry" project. Finally, Shepeliuk's photography will also be compared with industrial documentation projects by non-Soviet photographers, such as Margaret Bourke-White's 'Eyes on Russia' (1931) and the Franki Raffles project 'Women in the USSR' (1989). Critically, in the course of this research, I will catalogue and digitise Shepeliuk's archive, making it publicly accessible through the Urban Media Archive.The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the extreme precarity (deindustrialization, defunding, decommunization, and now war) of many archives and heritage collections in Ukraine, which is today facing atrocious violence at the hands of the Russian army. Parts of the Shepeliuk archive were lost during the Russian occupation of Donetsk in 2014, including the photographer's original cameras, lenses, photo laboratory tools, and journals containing film development formulas. This research is therefore critical to preserve and analyse the remaining parts of the collection. This project requires that I develop several skills, which St Andrews is well-equipped to provide training in. As a PhD student, I will access the GRADskills programme of workshops that will provide foundational training in data handling. I have some experience of digital archiving, but I will need specific training in the processing of a large, personal archive. My hope is that Shepeliuk's archive can be ultimately made digitally available to other researchers. Therefore, it is imperative that the material is logically handled and catalogued from the outset. My project also requires training in handling of photographic archives.The SGSAH Culture and Heritage Discipline+ Catalyst will be critical for engaging conversations around digitisation, public memory and heritage preservation, central to my research. The SGSAH Citizen, Culture, and Ethics hub, based at St Andrews and led by Modern Languages researcher, Tom Smith, will enable consideration of ethical questions of researching the family archive. Furthermore, I will seek SGSAH Cohort Development Funding for an Innovative Training Event workshop dedicated to the digitization of family photo-archives and at-risk heritage preservation. A three-month SGSAH Visiting Doctoral Research position at the Center for Urban History in Lviv would further enable valuable hands-on training in digitising vulnerable archives.

Oleksii Shepeliuk 档案馆是本博士课程的重点，它将研究乌克兰的工业摄影实践。该档案从未被研究过，它将为苏联时代的工业历史和遗产提供重要的见解，这些历史和遗产如今处于废弃和灭绝之间的灰色地带。 Oleksii Shepeliuk 于 1963 年至 1970 年间担任《Kyiv Lepse Factory》报纸的摄影师和编辑。他的作品集由摄影、新闻和附带笔记组成，提供了对工业自我记录实践的难得一睹，这是苏联乌克兰视觉和文化历史中一个很少被研究的领域。 我的博士学位将研究谢佩柳克的摄影档案，同时分析他的文本，包括他在基辅塔拉斯舍甫琴科国立大学用乌克兰语写的论文，题为“照片报道——深刻的宣传武器”。为了将这些材料置于背景中，我将采访前工厂工人及其家人，并将 Lepse 档案与 Darnytskyi 缝纫厂和基辅摩托车厂等机构进行比较，这些档案馆藏可通过数字方式访问。最后，谢佩柳克的摄影作品还将与非苏联摄影师的工业文献项目进行比较，例如玛格丽特·伯克-怀特的“关注俄罗斯”（1931）和弗兰基·莱佛士的项目“女性”。重要的是，在这项研究过程中，我将对谢佩柳克的档案进行编目和数字化，使其成为现实。对乌克兰的全面入侵突显了乌克兰许多档案馆和遗产收藏品的极度不稳定（去工业化、撤资、非共产化和现在的战争），如今乌克兰正面临着残暴的暴力。俄罗斯军队。谢佩柳克档案的部分内容在 2014 年俄罗斯占领顿涅茨克期间丢失，包括摄影师的原始相机、镜头、照片实验室工具以及包含胶片冲洗公式的日记。因此，这项研究对于保存和分析藏品的其余部分至关重要。 该项目要求我培养多项技能，圣安德鲁斯有足够的能力提供培训。作为一名博士生，我将参加 GRADskills 研讨会计划，该计划将提供数据处理方面的基础培训。我有一些数字归档经验，但我需要在处理大型个人档案方面进行专门培训。我希望谢佩柳克的档案最终能够以数字方式提供给其他研究人员。因此，从一开始就必须对材料进行逻辑处理和编目。我的项目还需要处理摄影档案的培训。SGSAH 文化和遗产学科+催化剂对于参与围绕数字化、公共记忆和遗产保护的对话至关重要，这也是我研究的核心。 SGSAH 公民、文化和道德中心位于圣安德鲁斯，由现代语言研究员 Tom Smith 领导，将能够考虑研究家庭档案的道德问题。此外，我还将为创新培训活动研讨会寻求 SGSAH 队列发展资金，该研讨会致力于家庭照片档案的数字化和濒危遗产保护。在利沃夫城市历史中心为期三个月的 SGSAH 访问博士研究职位将进一步提供宝贵的实践培训，以将脆弱档案数字化。