Sylvia Plachy, Hanging Bridge, Ukraine, 2010
Born in Budapest, Sylvia Plachy lives in New York City. Formerly a staff photographer for the Village Venice, she is now a contributing photographer for the New Yorker. Her moody, poetic photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Art Forum, Granta, Grand Street, and many other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the recipient of a Lucie Award and recently received the Erich Salomon Lifetime Achievement award. Her photographs are in private collections and numerous museums. She travels and photographs regularly in Eastern Europe.

Chiara Negrello, From Ukrainian Caregivers, 2022
A freelance photographer born in Rovigo, Italy, Chiara Negrello pursues projects on social and environmental issues in Italy andhas photographed migrants in Bihac, on the border between Bosnia and Croatia. Her multimedia project “Like the Tide” was published by National Geographic. Her current project is on the lives of Ukrainian women who immigrated to Europe to work as caretakers.

Elena Subach, From Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven, 2019
Born in Chervonohrad, Ukraine, Elena Subach lives and works in Lviv. Previously a textile designer, her work mixes documentary, staging, computer editing, and handcrafting. Her previous series, The Sacrifice and Silent Histories explored her experience of growing up in provincial Ukraine. Her recent series, Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven, explores the lives of grandmothers. Many of the portraits were taken during the Farewell, a religious celebration that invites Christians to atone for their sins. Subach has taken part in numerous group art projects and exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, etc.

Justyna Mielnikiewic, From Ukraine RunsThrough It, 2019
Justyna Mielnikiewic is a Polish photographer based since 2003 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her works have been published by The New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, National Geographic, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2016, she received a grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. She devotes herself to personal, long-term projects often published as books such as Woman With a Monkey (2014) and Ukraine Runs Through It, shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Best Book award in 2019.

Maxim Dondyuk, From Between Life and Death, 2017
Born in 1983, Dondyuk started his career as a photojournalist in 2007. His long-term projects include Uman Rosh Hashana (2008-2012), The Crimea Sich (2010-2013), and TB Epidemic in Ukraine, (2010-2012), as well as the more recent Culture and Confrontation ( 2013-2014), published as a book. He has presented his photographs in Arles, Paris, and Minsk, published in numerous European maga􏰎ines, and received a number of awards for his work. He is currently working in Ukraine.

Ira Lupu, From On Dreams and Screens, 2020

A co-curator of this exhibition, Ira Lupu is a photographer, multimedia artist, and writer born in Odesa, Ukraine, and currently based in New York City. Her recent project “On Dreams and Screens” explores the psychological aspects of virtuality through the experiences of a group of female online sex workers in Ukraine. Initially supported by the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, the project was published in the British Journal of Photography, Vogue Italia, i-D, and exhibited at the Copenhagen Photo Festival, Bristol Photo Festival, Verzasca Photo Festival, and Odesa Photo Days, and most recently at the Rotterdam Art Week.

Irynka Hromotska
Irynka Hromotska is a Ukranian freelance photojournalist and photo editor at Columbia Missourian. She is currently getting her Master’s degree in photojournalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. In Ukraine, Hromotska primarily works on stories connected to the war in Eastern Ukraine and the issues of national identities told through personal life stories. Her work has been  published in different media outlets, including Radio Free Europe, New Eastern Europe, Reuters, and UNHCR Ukraine.

Marta Iwanek, From Where My House Once Stood
Marta Iwanek is a Ukrainian-Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer. She is a graduate of the journalism program at X University and the photojournalism program at Loyalist College. Her work examines community and family through the lens of identity and memory and questions what we gain from them and what happens when that connection is lost. Her first short doc titled Vika received second place for Best Canadian Short Doc at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Selected clients include: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBC, NBC Left Field, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Canadian Press, the Toronto Star, CTV, and Maisonneuve.

Oksana Parafeniuk
Oksana Parafeniuk is an independent photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she explores  the manifestations of human resilience and dignity among people facing hardships. In addition to her personal projects, Oksana’s work has been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Rest of World, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, MSF Doctors Without Borders, UN Women, UNHCR, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and others.

Zhenya Trifonova

Zhenya Trifonova is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kyiv. Her photographic works range from pastoral scenes to candid portraiture, effortlessly composed and often haunting glimpses of her native environment.

Alexey Yurenev, Road to Odessa
Alexey Yurenev is a Russian-American photographer and educator, working on the subjects of memory and truth. Yurenev contributed long form photo essays to the New York Times and the National Geographic. At the start of the pandemic, Yurenev co-founded an online publication, FOTODEMIC.org, dedicated to exploring innovative visual strategies. He is currently working on a project using artificial intelligence to recover lost memory of his grandfather’s exploits in WWII and attending Photography & Society Masters at the Royal Academy at The Hague, Netherlands.