UKRZALIZNYTSIA – Julie Poly

A delirious nocturne aboard Ukraine’s state railway, UKRZALIZNYTSIA is Julie Poly’s cult photobook of desire, uniform, and transit, first published in 2019 in a small underground edition. Before becoming an artist, Poly worked as a train attendant herself — a fact that saturates every image with insider precision and intuition. Her camera doesn’t document the railway; it rides it like a fever dream, where erotic charge, fatigue, humour and hierarchy jostle in the corridors.

Technical Sheet
Title: UKRZALIZNYTSIA
Artist / Author: Julie Poly
Date: 2020
Technique / Printing Method: Offset with metallic ink
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions: Approx. 21 × 28
Pages: Unnumbered
Language: Ukrainian, English
Publisher: Self-published
Condition: Near fine