LET US NOT FALL ASLEEP WHILE WALKING (2019)
Shortlisted, Author Book Award, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, 2019
SELECTED AWARDS
Winner, Photo Book Award, Rendez-Vous Image, Strasbourg, FR
Winner, Sony Academy Award, B
Shortlisted, Author Book Award, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, FR
Laureate, Futures, Amsterdam, NL
Winner, Int. Documentary Photographer of the Year, IPOTY, NY, US
Winner, Emerging Talent Award, LensCulture, NYC, US
Finalist, Voies-Off Award, Arles, FR
Winner, Center Awards, Project Development Grant, Santa Fe, US
Winner, Alexia Foundation, Award of Excellence, NYC, US
Winner, DDK, Museum of Photography, Rotterdam, NL
516 pages
Print run: 700
Softcover
Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
Printed by PrintStoreGroup, Ukraine
ISBN: 978-1-911306-46-7
€39.00 EUR / £35.00 UK / $50.00 USA (+ shipping)
INCLUDED WRITINGS
“An Album for _______” by Oksana Zabuzhko (introduction) (pdf)
“On Decommunisation” – ©Sébastien Gobert (pdf)
“Hybrid State | Hybrid War | Hybrid Law” – ©Prof. Outi Korhonen (pdf)
“Veterans Within” – ©Jack Losh (pdf)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BJP-ONLINE, August 6, 2019, Catherine Lachowskyj, London, UK
NY-TIMES, July 23, 2019, Daphné Anglès, NY, US
REVIEW EXTRACTS
“Denil’s use of overtly cinematic staging in this project is definitely an artistic risk, but one that pays off handsomely in the ways it opens up the subtle psychology of Ukrainian people. Let Us Not Fall Asleep While Walking is a layered study of protest and its real human consequences, one that takes the specific circumstances of the Euromaidan situation and broadens and stylizes its outcomes, lessons, and meanings. The result is a memorably excellent body of work and photobook, one that seems to get more vivid and touching with each reading.”
– Loring Knoblauch, August 7, 2019 (pdf)
“With the book “LET US NOT FALL ASLEEP WHILE WALKING” David Denil shows himself not only to be a clever image maker, but also an erudite narrator and an excellent researcher and analyst. The book meanders from a humane documentary of the internal fragmentation within the hybrid state of Ukraine, to a commentary on unpunished attacks on activists and an unconcealed criticism of frozen research, but there is also room for hopeful stories of helping hands. This work expresses in a unique, moving way the experience of a disruptive policy and a human conflict, without betraying its complexity.”
– Sofie Crabbé, August 3, 2019
