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Evegeniy Maloletka is a Ukrainian war photographer, journalist and filmmaker, who has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014. He has also covered the Euromaidan Revolution, the protests in Belarus, the Nagorno-Karabakh war and the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. In 2022 his work during the siege of Mariupol has been recognized with the Knight International Journalism Award, the Visa d’or News Award and the Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie. He has also received awards from Italy, Germany, Norway and United States. Evgeniy Maloletka writes,” For me as a Ukrainian it is important to show the world what is really happening on the ground. We report what we see: the truth and facts, and portray the persistence and courage of ordinary Ukrainians.”
Oksana Parafeniuk is an independent photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she is exploring the manifestations of human resilience and dignity among people facing hardships. Her main interest is to explore creative approaches in documentary photography. In addition to her personal projects, Oksana has worked with and published her work in The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Rest of World, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Expresso newspaper / Portugal, MSF Doctors Without Borders, UN Women, BBC Ukraine, Incisive Media, UNHCR, Internews Ukraine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Bird in Flight Magazine, Ukrainian Truth, Prism Photo Magazine, and others. Participated in several Ukrainian exhibitions, among which a major group exhibition called “What is Your Name”, organized by UNICEF on the theme of internally displaced people, shown at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine (December 2016).
Serhii Korovayny is an editorial and portrait photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He covers the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russian war crimes in Ukraine, environmental issues, the refugee crisis, healthcare topics, etc. As a photojournalist, Serhii worked with Ukrainian and international media, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Time, and Politico. As a commercial and editorial visual storyteller, Serhii collaborated with the United Nations, OSCE, Danish Demining Group/Danish Refugee Council, and Premiere Urgance. As a visual storyteller, Serhii also works with video and VR. For example, he collaborated with the Ukrainian VR production New Cave Media. There, he became an assistant director of Aftermath VR Euromaidan, a Google-supported immersive documentary project. He received the Fulbright scholarship and made his Master's study in Visual Communications in the Newhouse School of Public Communication in Syracuse, NY, USA (2017-2021). Serhii's works were showcased at multiple personal and group exhibitions worldwide. He is a member of The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP).
Mikhail Palinchak is Ukrainian street and documentary photographer residing and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Born January 1985 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine into photographic family. Starts photography in 2008. Since 2012 member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA) and member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF) since 2014. 2014-2019 Official photographer of the President of Ukraine. Founder of Untitled magazine and co-founder of Ukrainian Street Photography group. Numerous awards, exhibitions and publications around the world. His photographs are stored in private collections and permanent collections of photography museums.
Brendan Hoffman (b. 1980, Albany, NY, USA) is a documentary photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where his work reflects his interest in themes of identity, history, politics, conflict, and the environment. Since 2013 he has primarily covered revolution and war in Ukraine. His work has been published widely, shown at festivals including Visa Pour l’Image, the Zoom Photo Festival in Canada, and the Singapore International Photography Festival, and exhibited across Ukraine, in a major solo show at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, Illinois, and in various galleries and educational institutions across Europe and the United States.
Igor Chekachkov, b. 1989 in Kharkiv, Ukraine Started as a photojournalist in 2008, Igor Chakachkov covered a wide range of cultural, mass and sports events. The path through photographic fields, weaving through years of work and searching, led the author to the field of art photography which he still explores these days. The boundaries between public and intimate spaces 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.
Spiritually awakened, he chose photography and due to his ambition and dedication in less than a year his work has been internationally recognized and he became a stringer for some of the most important press agencies (Associated Press and Getty Images). Photography became a new means of expressing his social artistry and belief in doing good. Therefore in his projects he approached some of the intriguing aspects of living in today’s Romania, in an attempt to raise awareness and increase social responsibility among institutions and individuals. He believes that we are way beyond the point where a true documentary photographer simply just shows us the reality as they see it.
Ioana Moldovan is a freelance photojournalist, documentary photographer, writer and published author based in Bucharest, Romania. Her work has been published by The New York Times, ESPN, Al Jazeera English, Huffington Post, BBC, Der Spiegel, Libération, Deutsche Welle, LensCulture, Radio France Internationale, Slate.fr, Decât O Revista, Dilema Veche and Vice among others. She has also worked on multimedia projects funded by the European Commission and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In 2016 she took part in the Eddie Adams Workshop and was awarded The Bill Eppridge Memorial Award for Excellence and Truth in Photographic Journalism. The U.S. Embassy in Bucharest presented her with the “Women of courage” award for outstanding achievement in highlighting truth through photojournalism. In 2018 she was selected to attend the Missouri Photo Workshop and in 2021 became a VII Academy alumnus. Ioana Moldovan was one of the ten Eastern-European photographers selected for a Masterclass in Documentary Photography by the Dutch NOOR Photo Agency. Her photos have illustrated books, were shown in theatre shows and numerous national and international exhibitions, accompanied an international event at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris, France and some were selected in the Top 40 of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken on BuzzFeed.
Andrei Pungovschi is a photographer based in Bucharest, Romania. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Bucharest and then went on to study photojournalism at the University of Missouri, on a Fulbright scholarship. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, College Photographer of the Year, The Missouri Press Association and Norhtweast Regional Emmy. Andrei was fortunate enough to have been a participant in several workshops, among which the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Mountain Workshop, the Foundry Workshop and the World Press Photo Masterclass for Southeastern Europe.
I am freelance print and photojournalist passionately covering topics on human rights, trials at international tribunals, transitional justice, humanitarian crises and underreported social issues. I am based in Warsaw, where I focus on Poland’s political scene and regularly collaborate with The Wall Street Journal’s correspondent for Central & Eastern Europe. But you can also often find me in East or West Africa interviewing victims of wars and social injustice. I gained most of my professional experience while working in countries, which are either struggling to recover from various armed conflicts, or are at the bottom of the Human Development Index, with a significant percentage of its citizens living in extreme poverty. I always strive to explore the complexity behind a given topic and aim to portray the fates of those who are victims of larger systems and whose voices are often ignored. This approach is reflected in my portfolio which features articles on: female genocidaires from Rwanda, Polish LGBT communities, Uganda’s former child soldiers, Ghana’s street children, Accra’s slum communities facing forced evictions, and also a variety of in-depth features on Liberian, Ukrainian, Syrian and South Sudanese refugees.
Wojciech Grzedzinski (b. 1980 in Warsaw, Poland). Photojournalist. His work was awarded in competitions such as World Press Photo, Visa D'Or, NPPA, Sony World Photography Awards, Grand Press Photo, and many others. He is an author of the Picture of the Year (2009) and Picture of the Decade (2014) in BZWBK Press Photo competition. In his career, he has regularly been a jury member and head of the jury in International and Polish photography competitions. Willingness to document the human condition and convey strong emotions is always in the center of his photography. For years, he reported armed conflicts and their consequences in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Georgia, and Ukraine. Between 2011–15 he was chief of photographers and the official photographer of the President of the Republic of Poland. He is a scholar of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a member of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers.
My name is Michał Zieliński (05.03.1989) and I’m a Polish freelance photojournalist based in Cracow, Poland. I focus on social issues in the Middle East, post-Soviet states and Poland. I’ve covered conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Ukraine and Palestine. I’m a Krakow Academy of Photography fellow and a member of the Frontline Freelance Register. In 2018/2019 I was a participant of the VII Photo Masterclass program. I believe in old school journalism. When possible, I aim to give voice to both sides of conflict, leaving my audience the ability to draw conclusions of their own. We live in a complex world where nothing is black and white, rather grey and unclear. Only with patience and the capacity to listen – even to those with whom you disagree – will you get the full picture. That’s my professional and personal philosophy.