Anastasiya Kholyavka
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Anastasiya Kholyavka

project assistant of the Urban Media Archive project (2020 – 2022), head of the Urban Media Archive project (2022 – present), researcher

She completed her postgraduate studies at the Lviv National Academy of Arts in 2018. In August-September 2023, she was an intern at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg, and in 2024 she took a course in Photograph Care and ID from the Gawain Weaver Conservation Studio.

In 2020, she started working at the Urban Media Archive as part of the project "Un/archiving the Post/Industry", for which she archived private and institutional collections from eastern Ukraine. She is still working on digitized collections, digitizing glass negatives and printed photographs. As an archivist, she is involved in the search for and application of digital tools for working with archives. Since 2022, she has been the head of the Urban Media Archive and has been overseeing its development with a special focus on private collections.

Her research focus is souvenir photography of Soviet Ukraine in the 1940s and 1950s. Research interests: everyday culture, materiality of photography, vernacular photography.

 

  • “Artels of Photographers in Postwar Lviv: Amateurs within the Professional Network”, report at the symposium “Amateur Photo Clubs in the USSR and the Satellite Countries during the 1950s-1980s”, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius, April 24, 2026.
  • “Un/archiving Post/industry: digital and public history projects experience”, presentation at the workshop “Everyday Heritage”, Brama Grodzka, Lublin, 13-17 February, 2024.
  • “As a Memento of Lviv”: Creating Souvenirs of the City in Photography of the 1950s and 1960s, Public lecture, Center for Urban History, Lviv, 2023.
  • “Digitising Sources from Early to Post-industrialisation”, workshop “Digitising Industrial Heritage”, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Luxembourg, 17-18 June, 2021.