British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville works at the intersection of art and documentary. He makes films, photographs, and books, that he often disseminates to a target audience for free in order to try to impact social issues. His last book, ‘Stop Tanks With Books’ was sent out for free to a target audience of diplomats, politicians, the super rich, celebrities, NATO and EU members - everyone, in short, who he felt had it in their power to help Ukraine. The concept was to weaponise the medium of the photo book to effect change. He had two aims. The first was to garner international support for Ukraine in its’ continuing fight for independence, help end Russian aggression in Donbas, and call for the withdrawal of Russia from Crimea. The second aim was to counteract the wealth of fake news and racist disinformation the Kremlin was generating - material that Western media was often perpetuating and reproducing unchallenged and unchecked - by presenting real portraits of Ukrainians. The first few hundred copies of the book were sent out just days before the war began. Supported by a collector of Mark’s photography, ’Postcode Ukraine’ is one of the outcomes of the ‘Stop Tanks With Books’ project. Mark’s work can be found in many museum and private collections, and he has exhibited extensively in venues including the V&A Museum, Tate Britain, the Andy Warhol Museum, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, the Imperial War Museum, Haus Der Kunst, and Jeu de Paume. Neville was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, The Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, the Aperture Photo Book Award 2017 and for Time Magazine Photo book award 2017. ‘Stop Tanks With Books’ was nominated for both the Arles Photo Book Award and Paris Photo Book Award 2022.