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Palanok Castle - UKRAINE

The Palanok Castle or Mukachevo Castle (Ukrainian: Замок "Паланок", romanized: Zamok "Palanok"; Hungarian: Munkács vára or Munkácsi vár; German: Plankenburg) is a historic castle in the city of Mukacheve in the western Ukrainian oblast (province) of Zakarpattia. The Palanok Castle is delicately preserved, and is located on a 68 metre high former volcanic hill. The castle complex consists of three parts: the high, middle, and low castle.

Born in 1897 to an affluent Russian Jewish family, Vishniac immigrated to Berlin in 1920 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. As an amateur photographer, he took to the streets with his camera throughout the 1920s and ’30s, offering astute, often humorous visual commentary on his adopted city and experimented with new and modern approaches to framing and composition. Documenting the rise of Nazi power, he focused his lens on the signs of oppression and doom that soon formed the backdrop of his Berlin street photography. From ca. 1935 to 1938, while living in Berlin and pursuing his lifelong interests in zoology, biology and science photography, he was commissioned by the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the world’s largest Jewish relief organization, to photograph impoverished Jewish communities in central and eastern Europe. On New Year’s Eve, 1940, he arrived in New York and soon opened a portrait studio. At the same time, he began documenting American Jewish communal and immigrant life and established himself as a pioneer in the field of photomicroscopy. In 1947, Vishniac returned to Europe and documented Jewish Displaced Persons camps and the ruins of Berlin. During this time, he also recorded the efforts of Holocaust survivors to rebuild their lives, and the work of the JDC and other Jewish relief organizations in providing them with aid and emigration assistance.   (source)

Another photos from Mukacheve: the Hungarian artist's, Feszty Árpád, 360 degrees panorama painting memorial. This is how our urban renovations look like in winter time. Bench lines delicately outline the memorial hill and the platform without hiding the memorial itself. Really recommend to check the place when you'll be in Mukacheve!

Mukacheve trip with Building Ukraine Together team, September 2017. First glance at Sorocha mountain, the majestic view from it and the UFO-like memorial devoted to Hungarian artist Feszty Árpád 360 degrees panorama painting. I chose this spot for my project, because it's extremely picturesque. Mukacheve artists suggested it to be found and checked and I agreed. We discovered, that there is nowhere to sit there, that previously installed benches were stollen, so I proposed few different furniture variations for the memorial space, as well as the arrows, showing the way to the top of the mountain. The lightest and the most transparent bench option was chosen and installed with the help of Building Ukraine Together volunteers team.

01-06 Members of Right Sector party stand on a block post which they created at the entrance to Kiev,Ukraine, 12 July 2015. ... http://dlvr.it/Q96rWz

01-06 Members of Right Sector party stand on a block post which they created at the entrance to Kiev,Ukraine, 12 July 2015. ... http://dlvr.it/Q96DRZ