Photographers

Ukrainian photojournalist. Cooperates with "Sportyvna Gazeta", "Olympic Arena", "Sport-Express-Journal" publications. Studied at Kyiv State University named after Taras Shevchenko at the Faculty of Journalism.

1980-1984 — photo correspondent of the newspaper "Young Guard". Member of the SZHU. Honored Journalist of Ukraine (1998).

Ukrainian reportage photographer from Donetsk. He graduated from the Donetsk Medical Institute, after which he worked for 15 years as a traumatologist in Avdiivka, Ukraine. Since 1999, he worked as a photojournalist in Donetsk. Currently lives and works in Mariupol, cooperating with national and international news agencies.

Ukrainian journalist, photojournalist. Works in Kyiv, researches various aspects of the Russian war in eastern Ukraine. Participant of the "Photography and Human Rights" program of the Magnum Foundation at New York University (2015).She has won several international photo contest awards, including College Photographer of the Year and Picture of the Year International. Finalist of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Her photos appeared in leading Western media: National Geographic, The Guardian, NBC, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times' Lens blog and TIME's Lightbox.

Ukrainian photojournalist, Reuters photographer.Awarded the Order of Merit III degree (June 5, 2015), has the title of Honored Journalist of Ukraine, winner of World Press Photo-2009.

Ukrainian documentary photographer, photojournalist. Covered military conflicts in Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, South Sudan and Ukraine. From 1997 to this day, he actively cooperates with the international humanitarian organization "Medecins Sans Frontieres" (Medecins Sans Frontieres) and participates in projects as a photographer, highlighting important social problems in society.

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Since 2015, she studied at the Bird In Flight photography school, the Viktor Marushchenko photography school, and the art business school.Alena Grom works at the intersection of social reporting and conceptual photography. Thunder sees its "mission" in illuminating the lives of people who find themselves in a "gray zone" or a zone close to hostilities. Life in spite of everything is one of the main themes of the artist.

The author is a laureate and winner of international competitions. Finalist of LensCulture Portrait Awards UK, YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art, Kaunas Photo Star Lithuania, Slovak Press Photo, The Tokyo International Foto Awards. She has exhibited in Europe, the USA, Japan, Colombia.

Ukrainian visual artist working in the field of documentary photography. His practice integrates multiple mediums including photography, video, text, and archival material. Maxim’s works often explore issues relating to history, memory, conflict, and their consequences.

Maxim has been widely awarded numerous recognitions including International Photographer of the Year in Lucie Awards, finalist of the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Magnum Photos competition ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers, finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His work has been exhibited internationally, at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, the Biennale of Photography in Bogota in Colombia, among others. He also was awarded an artist residency Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Maxim’s works are held in private and museum collections, including the National Museum of Photography in Colombia, the Benaki Museum in Greece, the National Museum of The History of Ukraine in WWII.

Documentary photographer, currently works and lives in Ukraine. Studied photojournalism at Ohio University (USA). The main theme of her projects is immigration and ethnic minorities. Ziyatdinov's photo stories about Russian migrants in New York and Crimean Tatars in Ukraine were published in the New York Times Lens blog, tyzden, CNN photo Blog, Anthropology Now, Human Science magazine In Transit.

Ukrainian photojournalist, war correspondent. After serving in the army, he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Kyiv University. He worked in the newspaper "Silski Visti", since 1991 - a photo reporter of the newspaper "Voice of Ukraine". Collaborated with "Spiegel" and "El Pais" newspapers. Since 1992, he has visited ten countries where military conflicts took place. The author of many personal exhibitions.

Ukrainian director, musician. He works at the State Agency of Ukraine for Management of the Exclusion Zone and the NGO European Chernobyl Institute.

Photography since 2006.  Collaborates with news agencies Associated Press, European Press-photo Agency, Reuters, Agency  France-Press, Getty Images, and many others.

Since 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016 photographer to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Co-founder of media project ARMIYA'UA since 2014. From 2016 collaborates with UNICEF, OSCE, UN.

Correspondent of the Kyiv bureau of Radio Liberty since 2015. Until February 24, 2022, he filmed hostilities in eastern Ukraine. On February 24, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he began filming from Donbass, then Kharkiv, the outskirts of Kyiv, and the Chernihiv region. Together with the Ukrainian military, he recording the moments of liberation of Ukrainian settlements. Previously, he also worked on the topic of COVID-19 distribution, filmed directly in intensive care units in different parts of Ukraine.

Ukrainian photojournalist, correspondent of Den' newspaper, photographer of the third President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

Ukrainian photojournalist, cooperates with the Ukrainian social and political internet media "Ukrainian Pravda".

Ukrainian photographer. He reported as a photojournalist from 2006, for LB.ua and Reuters among many others. He also provided photographs for international humanitarian organisations including UNICEF and World Health Organization.

During a mission to document the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in Kyiv Oblast, Levin was detained, interrogated, possibly tortured, and executed by Russian soldiers.

Ukrainian documentary photographer from Lviv, Ukraine.

Writer, war photographer, and journalist. As a journalist and photographer he has covered armed conflicts in Russia and the former USSR since 1991 (Romania, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Georgia) working primarily for the Los Angeles Times. In 2001, Loiko covered the war in Afghanistan and in 2003, the war in Iraq.

In 2004, he published his first book Shock and Awe, War in Iraq. In 2015, he published Airport a book about the battle of Donetsk airport. In 2017, Loiko published Flight about the shooting down of MH17.

Loiko was awarded with the 2014 Overseas Press Club’s Bob Considine Award and the 2015 Los Angeles Times Editorial Award. 

Ukrainian photographer, lives and works in Kyiv. Graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1999. In 2001 starts collaborating with international and local news media as photojournalist and reportage photographer.

Since 2014 dedicates himself to working on personal documentary and art projects focused on exploration and research of Ukraine social landscape, combining documentary shooting with archive studies.

Ukrainian photojournalist. Associated Press photojournalist since 1989. Filmed in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, Transnistria, filmed the detention of Saddam Hussein.

His pictures were published by almost all leading world media, including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent.

He has the Order of Merit of the III degree, the Grand Prix in the nomination "Best Photographer of the Year" of the International Photo Award "Golden Camera", and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Ukrainian freelance photojournalist. Started his career in 2009 as a staff photographer for local news agencies UNIAN and PHL.

Maloletka graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 2010 with a degree in electronics. In 2015, he was selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.

His work was published in numerous prominent media: TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Independent, El Pais, The Guardian, The Telegraph and others.

He spent most of his time in eastern Ukraine working on assignment for The Associated Press, also contributing video content. My footage was widely aired on the BBC, Euronews, NBC and other international TV stations.

Ukrainian photographer and photo editor. He worked in the Soviet and Ukrainian mass media. In 1995, "Abandoned People" received a special prize from the jury of the Le Grand Prix Images Vevey (Switzerland) competition for a series of photographs about the life of the mining towns of Donbas.

Producer and a visual artist, managing partner in a film production company BURO Creative Lab. The scope of work is the post-soviet transformations and the researching of the self-identification in Ukraine. Has taken part in international group exhibitions, contributing to media and books.

Ukrainian documentary and reportage photographer. Photographed for the UNIAN photo agency. He was the personal photographer of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

In 1971-1976, he attended the Prometheus photo club, received a diploma from the Photodebut competition. In 1987, he moved to Luhansk, where he was one of the active organizers of photographic life in the early 1990s. became the initiator of the creation of the local organization "Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine". In 1997, he moved to Kyiv, where he worked as a photographer for numerous publications and director of photo services, in particular at the publishing house "Kommersant" (Ukraine). Participant of competitions and exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, the former Yugoslavia and Mexico. Yuriy's works are in private and public collections, including in the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography.

Ukrainian street and documentary photographer. Starts photography in 2008. Since 2012 member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) and member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2014. 2014-2019 official photographer of the President of Ukraine. Founder of Untitled magazine and co-founder of Ukrainian Street Photography group. Author of the photo book "Anamnesis" (2020) and art-book "Maidan Faces" (2020). His photographs are stored in private collections and permanent collections of photography museums.

Ukrainian photojournalist, photo editor. In 1989, he started working as a photo correspondent for newspapers and magazines. The first publication in the periodical press was in 1984, and since 1986 - regular publications in the Ukrainian press. Magazines "Ranok", "Woman", "Ukraine", newspapers "Molod Ukrainy", "Ukraine Moloda", "Kyivski obstivi", "People's Army", "Respublika", "Financial Ukraine", "Evening Kyiv", Magazines "Vlasnyk ", "Companion". Pavlo is the Grand Prix winner of the "Ukrpressphoto" exhibition competition in 1994 and the winner of the "portrait" category of the same exhibition-competition in 1995. Worked with foreign news agencies as a freelancer — AR, AFP. Participant of photo exhibitions in Germany and Lithuania. Currently, he is a freelance photographer.

Ukrainian documentary photographer. In 2013-2014 he documented the Revolution of Dignity. He bought a digital camera, and the very next day one of the pictures he took was published by the German newspaper Die Welt on the cover. Later, he went to shoot the annexation in Crimea. Collaborated with international agencies EPA and AFP. He joined the Kyiv Post newspaper, where he has been working as a full-time photojournalist since 2014.

Ukrainian street photographer, studied at Viktor Marushchenko's school of photography. Finalist of the Istanbul Street Photography Festival 2020. Ukrainian Street Photographer of the Year 2020 of the "Ukrainian Street Photography" group. Works were published in Ukrainian publishing houses, such as The Village Ukraine, Reporters., Bird in Flight, Untitled and Ukrainer.

Ukrainian photo reporter and documentary photographer. He has been published in many Ukrainian publications (Ukrainian Pravda, Hromadske, Novoe Vremya, Focus, Forbes, Ukrainian Week, Reporters and others), as well as in foreign publications (Time, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The New York Times, El Pais, Radio Freedom Europe, BBC, Reuters, Der Spiegel).

Viacheslav is currently a full-time photojournalist for UNIAN and also works for Reuters as a freelancer.

As a freelance photographer, he collaborates with international organizations UNICEF, USAID, UNDP. Author of a photo story of “100 moments of the Revolution of Dignity”.Since the first hours, he has been covering the russian-Ukrainian war.

Ukrainian photojournalist. Knight of the Order of Merit III degree (2022).He worked in a bank and took photographs in a studio. Worked with news agencies, including France Press (AFP), now a freelance photographer. Photographed the events that took place on the Euromaidan, in particular the confrontation on Hrushevsky Street on January 19, 2014. Currently covers the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Photographer, former political photographer (KP publications, AFP). Five years ago, I traded my professional Canon for an iPhone and became interested in street photography.

Lives and works in Kyiv. One of the photographer's works was exhibited at the Columbus Museum of Art, and another photo was included in the selection of The New York Times, dedicated to everyday subjects from Ukraine and Russia.

Photojournalist and media producer. He interrupted his corporate photography career in Donetsk to start cover the conflict in Ukraine as the fixer, and later as photojournalist and media producer. Anton cooperates with different international media outlets to produce news, features and documentaries as the producer and photographer. He also provides consultant services in the fields of his expertise. Clients: BBC, CBC, PBS, CNN, Vice, The Globe and Mail, La Croix, The Huffington Post, RFE/RL, Knack, Fuji TV, CCTV, TBS, Le Slate, Zaborona, PAX, Amnesty International etc.

Documentary and sports photographer, photojournalist. Have been published in media for around 8 years. The main topics she usually works with are human rights violations, ethnic and religious conflicts, and life in a post-conflict zone. For more than 3 years Smutko covered the current situation in occupied Crimea. Also, she worked in the Donbas region and South Caucasus. Have a few projects on social issues, connected with motherhood, orphan diseases, and palliative care. Smutko participated in many collective personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Her works were published in Deutsche Welle, BBC, Politico, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, the Independent, Reuters.

Ukrainian photographer, photojournalist, journalist, blogger. He worked as a photographer in the newspaper "Vechirni Visti". Since 2006, he worked on the staff of Kommersant magazine.

With the beginning of Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, Sodel Vladyslav films historical events on the streets of Kyiv. After manifestations of censorship and anti-Ukrainian publications in the Russian editions of the Kommersant and distortion of captions under his photos, he was dismissed from the photo service of the Ukrainian editorial office of the publication in January 2014 and began working as a freelancer, and cooperated with the international news agency "REUTERS" as a stringer.

Ukrainian documentary photographer who has been filming the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2014. Anatoly collaborated with Reuters, Der Spiegel, The Daily Telegraph, films for France-Presse and Radio Svoboda. He has a medal "For assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine" from the Ministry of Defense.

Ukrainian photographer, cooperates with the European photo agency AFP. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Ukrainian photographer whose works win international competitions and are exhibited at world exhibitions. He was recently a finalist in The Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) 2019.

Ukrainian visual storyteller, University of Missouri alumni and co-founder of New Cave Media, an immersive storytelling studio based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He covered the Ukrainian revolution of 2013/2014, the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing war in East Ukraine.

Alexey’s coverage of the conflict has been recognized by POYi, NPPA, PDN Photo Annual, and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents. His work has been published in TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, 6MOIS, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, De Standaard, and Financial Times.

Ukrainian reportage and street photographer. He started taking photographs in 1962. Honored journalist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Photographic Artists (NSFHU). For 40 years, he worked as a photojournalist in the regional newspaper "Luhanska Pravda". He currently lives in Chernihiv with his family.

Started as a photojournalist in 2008, Igor Chekachkov covered a wide range of cultural, mass and sports events. This experience led the author to the field of art photography, which he still explores these days. The boundaries between public and intimate spaces, as well as modern digital algorithms and their influence on the image are the main focus for the author today.

His work has been published in Forbes, National Geographic, The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), WirtschaftsWoche (Germany), Forbes (Ukraine) and others. He also continues to exhibit his prints internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including work in the Quatrième Image, Paris (2014), Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris (2015), Ukrainian Museum, New York (2015), Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2015), Odessa // Batumi festival (2017) and many others.

Member of UPHA (Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) and UAPF (Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers) group, National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine.

Started his career as a photographer in a small photo studio in his home town. On the free of work time he photographed people on the streets and homes, who were effected the
most by economical crisis after Soviet Union collapse. HIs work give an intimate and unique insider view on transition of coal mining region in 90-s in Eastern Ukraine. He moved to Kiev in 1997, where he works as photojournalist.

His work has been published in New York Times Lens Blog, Time Magazine and Time Light Box, New Yorker Photo Booth, MSNBC, Quartz, The Guardian, Vice Magazine, Liberation. 

Ukrainian photojournalist. Lives and works in Kyiv. For four years, Kostyantyn filmed for the Reuters news agency, and in 2012 he moved to KyivPost. Later, together with his colleagues, Chernichkin founded the agency Pole Zoru: according to him, he started it "because I wanted not just to take photos, but to develop photographic processes in the country." In 2017, the Pole Zoru team published a visual story about the war in Ukraine - .RAW - with the participation of 33 international professional authors and organized an exhibition of photos taken by Ukrainian soldiers - amateur photographers in the ATO / OOS area.

Ukrainian war correspondent, filmmaker, photographer, and novelist known for his coverage of the Ukrainian revolution, the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the war in Iraq, Syria, and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Afghanistan under Taliban rule after U.S. withdrawal, as well as for his art installations and exhibitions.

Chernov is an Associated Press journalist and the President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP). He has won several prestigious awards, including two Royal Television Society for his coverage of the downing of flight MH17, and the Georgy Gongadze Prize, ICFJ Knight awards, and DW Freedom of Speech Award for documenting  the siege in Mariupol as one of two remaining international journalists in the city.

He was nominated for international prizes such as the Livingston Award for his work on the civil unrest in Belarus in 2021, and the Rory Peck Award for his coverage of the Battle of Mosul. He was Ukrainian Photographer of the Year in 2013 and 2015. Most recently, he documented the devastation in Mariupol, Ukraine as described in his AP article "20 Days in Mariupol: The Team that Documented the City’s Agony".

Photojournalist and commercial photographer from Kyiv. Cooperates with the UN structure in Ukraine, international humanitarian missions, cultural foundations and news agencies, has been published in Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde, De Volkskrant and many others. Volodymyr's photos were included in the top 100 of the France-Presse agency for 2014.