{"id":537146,"date":"2026-04-27T21:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537146"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:39:57","slug":"ruins-of-belarus-book-included-among-best-polish-books-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ruins-of-belarus-book-included-among-best-polish-books-of-2025","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d Book Included Among Best Polish Books of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The book \u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d by the VEHA initiative has been <a href=\"https:\/\/ptwk.pl\/npk-2025\/\">nominated <\/a>for the Najpi\u0119kniejsze Polskie Ksi\u0105\u017cki 2025 award in the \u201cart\u201d category (albums, catalogs, photo books).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d is the first book by VEHA, published jointly with Polish publishers. The co-publisher of the book is the Belarusian Cultural Center in Bia\u0142ystok (in cooperation with the Arsenal Gallery in Bia\u0142ystok). The publication includes photographs from the archive collected by the center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_537050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-537050\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-537050\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n-531x400.jpg 531w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/589314059_18398100700124110_1710267117185306221_n-1062x800.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-537050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1915\u20131918, Kreva, Smarhon District, Hrodna Region. Ruins of Kreva Castle and the Trinity Church. Provided by Yauhen Mshar. VEHA Archive, \u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d collection. Photo: veha-archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new photographic collection by VEHA tells the story of the fate of Belarusian stone buildings. The book features photographs of destroyed architectural monuments sourced from 45 family and public archives.<\/p>\n<p>Wars, neglect, and state violence destroyed castles and churches, town halls and temples, synagogues and houses. Many of them have disappeared without a trace from the earth but remain preserved in photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The team continues to collect materials for the second volume of \u201cRuins of Belarus,\u201d which will be released as more photographs are submitted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"info\"><p><strong>Subscribe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/cult_front\">to Reform.news cultural updates<\/a> on Telegram<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book \u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d by the VEHA initiative has been nominated for the Najpi\u0119kniejsze Polskie Ksi\u0105\u017cki 2025 award in the \u201cart\u201d category (albums, catalogs, photo books). \u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d is the first book by VEHA, published jointly with Polish publishers. The co-publisher of the book is the Belarusian Cultural Center in Bia\u0142ystok (in cooperation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f064515773f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cRuins of Belarus\u201d Book Included Among Best Polish Books of 2025"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}