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

Oleksii Sepeliuk档案是这个博士论文的重点，它将考察乌克兰的工业摄影实践。这份档案从未被研究过，它将为了解苏联时代的工业历史和遗产提供关键的见解，这些历史和遗产今天存在于废弃和灭绝之间的灰色地带。Oleksii Sepeliuk在1963-1970年间是基辅Lepse Factory报纸的摄影师和编辑。他的作品集包括摄影、新闻和附注，提供了一个难得的机会，让人们得以一窥工业自我记录的做法，这是苏联乌克兰视觉和文化史中一个很少被研究的领域。我的博士学位将研究谢普利乌克的摄影档案以及对他的文本的分析，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--一种犀利的宣传武器》。为了将这些材料联系起来，我将采访前工厂工人及其家人，并将Lepse的档案与Darnytskyi缝纫厂和基辅摩托车厂等机构进行比较。这些档案收藏品可通过“联合国/档案馆/工业”项目以数字方式查阅。最后，谢普利乌克的摄影作品还将与非苏联摄影师的工业记录项目进行比较，如玛格丽特·布尔克-怀特的《看着俄罗斯》(1931年)和弗兰基·莱佛士的项目《苏联妇女》()。关键的是，在这项研究过程中，我将对谢普利乌克的档案进行编目和数字化，通过城市媒体档案馆向公众开放。对乌克兰的全面入侵突显了乌克兰许多档案和遗产收藏品的极端轻率(去工业化、去资金、去社区化，现在是战争)，今天乌克兰正面临俄罗斯军队手中的残酷暴力。谢普利乌克的部分档案在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、照片实验室工具和包含胶片冲洗公式的期刊。因此，这项研究对于保存和分析藏品的其余部分至关重要。这个项目需要我发展几项技能，圣安德鲁斯已经做好了提供培训的准备。作为一名博士生，我将参加GRAD技能研讨会计划，该计划将提供数据处理方面的基础培训。我有一些数字存档的经验，但我需要在处理大型个人档案方面进行专门的培训。我的希望是，谢普利乌克的档案最终能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。我的项目还需要接受处理照片档案的培训。SGSAH文化和遗产学科+催化剂将是围绕数字化、公共记忆和遗产保护展开对话的关键，这些都是我研究的核心。位于圣安德鲁斯的SGSAH公民、文化和伦理中心由现代语言研究员汤姆·史密斯领导，将使人们能够考虑研究家庭档案的伦理问题。此外，我将为一个致力于家庭照片档案数字化和濒危遗产保护的创新培训活动研讨会寻求SGSAH队列发展基金。在利沃夫的城市历史中心提供一个为期三个月的瑞典国家卫生与公众服务局访问博士研究职位，将进一步提供关于将易受伤害的档案数字化的宝贵的实践培训。

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.