 In September 2007 The Union of the Ukrainian Students in Germany and The Russian-German Exchange announced the Competition of digital photos “Everyday life of my region” for the young Ukrainian photographers.
The Competition was held in the framework of the project “East and West are two banks of one river”, the main idea of which is to present the reality of the everyday life of various regions of modern Ukraine. Therefore the main goal of the Competition was to attract the attention of the German and Ukrainian communities to the problems of inter-regional differences and to searching ways of solving these problems: www.sus-n.org The organizers received more than 1 000 pictures from 200 authors. The Expert council chose 43 best works for the final exhibition. Five of them became the winners of the Competition. Fulfilling their promise the organizers invited the winners to the opening ceremony to Berlin. The happy winners are: Eugeniya Bilorusets (Kyiv), Roman Bodnarchuk (Kolomiya city of Ivano-Frankivsk region), Dmytro Yermolov (Kyiv), Dmytro Povolyayev (Donetsk), Iryna Revchuk (Kyiv). The opening of the final exhibition "UKRAINE.NOW" will be held on 21 December 2007 at the first private Ukrainian gallery in Berlin «Bereznitsky Gallery (Kiew -Berlin). Its founder - Dr. Ludmila Bereznitsky is also a founder and President of EIDOS Foundation. All her projects and exhibitions are aimed to make Ukraine a new modern artistic arena open for the most advanced ideas and to improve Ukraine's image as a country of great creative potential. Besides the winners’ photos the exhibition will present works by Yuliya Andrusiv (Kyiv), Dmytro Bairachnyi (Kharkiv), Natalya Burlachenko (Kyiv), Maria But’ko (Kharkiv), Yuriy Yezlovetskyi (Kyiv), Oleksandr Khorvat (Rivne), Kyrylo Horishnyi (Lviv), Semen Khramtsov (Kherson), Ihor Kapustin (Mykolaiv), Olexiy Kasianov (Kherson), Maks Levin (Boyarka of Kyiv region), Natalya Lisova (Kyiv), Artem Mel’nyk (Kyiv), Denis Rafal’skyi (Gorlovka), Anatoliy Stepanov (Kyiv), Oleksandr Tyhostup (Kyiv), Viktor Vyshnevskyi (Zhytomyr), Oleksandra Voinova (Zaporizhzhya). The exposition is open for visitors till the 9 January 2008 (address: Linien Street 144 in Berlin-Mitte) | 
