Maxim Dondyuk
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July 15, 1983 Slavuta, Ukraine |
| Nationality |
 Soviet Union →  Ukraine |
| Occupation | Documentary photographer, Photographer. |
| Awards | The Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award, The Best Global Health Story of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition'. |
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Maxim Dondyuk (Ukraine, 1983) is a Ukrainian documentary photographer. He began working as a photojournalist in the Ukrainian media in 2007. In 2011 Dondyuk received Noor-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography in Bucharest.[1] Since 2010 he has worked as a freelancer on his own documentary projects. He has won awards including the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award,[2] Magnum Photos ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers,[3] finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography,[4] finalist for the FotoEvidence Book Award,[5] Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story’ of Becton Dickinson (BD)’s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition',[6] and shortlisted in the portraiture category of the Sony World Photography Awards.
Life and work
Dondyuk's projects include ‘Uman, Rosh Hashana',[7] 2008-2012, celebration of the Jewish New Year in one of the biggest centers of Jewish pilgrimage outside Israel, in Uman (Ukraine); ‘The Crimea Sich',[8] 2010-2013, about military patriotic camp for children and future Cossacks; ‘TB epidemic in Ukraine',[9] 2010-2012, Dondyuk opened hushed tuberculoses problem in Ukraine, which managed to reach the national status. Since winter 2014 Dondyuk has documented historical events that happen in his country, Euromaidan in Kyiv, annexation of the Crimea by Russia, war in the East of Ukraine.
Dondyuk collaborates with international editions and online media. His photographs have been published in TIME, Der Spiegel, STERN, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, Photo District News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Russian Reporter, Libération, Polka, 6Mois, Esquire etc. Also he has worked with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dondyuk’s works are in private and museum collections.
Awards
2010 – 2nd & 3rd Prize Picture Story of the Year of the Photojournalism Development Foundation Award.
2011 – Honorable mention of the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards; Grand Prix of the contest “Photo Film”, Chernihiv Photo Fest; Grand Prix of the Circle of Life contest, International Photofestival “Vilnius Photo Circle”; Finalist of the Pikto International Competition.
2012 – Nomination of the Magnum Emergency Fund, Magnum Photos; Award of Excellence (Issue Reporting Multimedia Story), Pictures of the Year International (POYi); Finalist of the Photo Evidence Book Award; 2nd Prize Picture Story of the Year of the Photographers Giving Back Contest; Finalist of the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism; Grand Prix Best Global Health Story of Becton Dickinson (BD)’s Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition; Forward Thinking Museum, finalist of 2nd quarter; Finalist for a grant of The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film; Finalist for a grant of the 4th edition of the AnthropoGraphia Human Rights Through Visual Storytelling; Honourable Mention of the International Photography Awards annual competition (IPA); Country’s Pick 1st place of the International Photography Awards annual competition (IPA); Finalist of the Circle of Life contest, International Photofestival “Vilnius Photo Circle”; Finalist of the Photostory: Small Stories contest; Forward Thinking Museum, finalist of 4th quarter.
2013 – Shortlist in the Portraiture category of Sony World Photography Awards; Grand Prix of the Best Photo of the Year at the contest “Photographer of the Year”; Honorable mention of the FotoVisura Grant; Finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.[4]
2014 – Magnum Photos competition ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers.;[3] Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award.;[2] Finalist of the Circle of Life contest, International Photofestival “Vilnius Photo Circle”.
Exhibitions
2011 – Personal exhibition “Uman, Rosh Hashanah” (Lviv, Ukraine); Personal exhibition “Uman, Rosh Hashanah” (Lviv, Ukraine); Personal exhibition “TUBERCULOSIS”, Center for Documentary Photography «FOTODOC» (Moscow, Russia); Screening “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Bursa Photo Fest (Bursa,Turkey); Screening “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Chernihiv Photo Fest (Chernihiv , Ukraine); Exhibitions and screenings “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” and ’’Uman, Rosh Hashsana”, Vilnius Photo Circle (Vilnius, Lithuania).
2012 – Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” (Donetsk, Ukraine); Screening “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Instant Coffees (Bristol, UK); Exhibition in the “Best Photographer 2011”, Center of Photography Lumiere brothers (Moscow, Russia); Exhibition “Hope for a Healthy World”, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph (Charlottesville, USA); Screening “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism (Hanover, Germany); Group exhibition “Other World” (Leeds, UK); Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Kirovohrad Regional Museum of Art (Kirovograd, Ukraine); Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine”, Arts Center “Kvartira” (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine); Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” (Vinnitsa, Ukraine); Exhibition “2012 FotoEvidence Book Award”, VII Photo Agency Gallery (New York, USA); Exhibition and screening “The Сrimea Sich” and ’’The Story of One Man”, Vilnius Photo Circle (Vilnius, Lithuania); Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” (Uzhgorod, Ukraine); Screening “The Rosh Hashanah”, Angkor Photo Festival (Angkor, Cambodia); Personal exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” (Zaporozhye, Ukraine).
2013 – Exhibition “Best Photographer of Year”, M17 Contemporary Art Center (Kyiv, Ukraine); Exhibition “Sony World Photography Awards”, Somerset House (London, UK); Screening “Rosh Hashsana”, Tbilisi Photo Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia); Exhibition “The TB epidemic in Ukraine” on the PhotoReportAge Festival (Pomarico, Italy); Personal exhibition “Uman, Rosh Hashanah”, Gallery CAMERA (Kyiv, Ukraine); Personal exhibition “Old Age”, Municipal Art Gallery (Nova Kachovka, Ukraine); Screening “The Crimea Sich”, Angkor Photo Festival (Angkor, Cambodia); Showing a short documentary film “CRIMEA SICH”, American Independence Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine).
2014 – Personal exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, PARTcom gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine); Exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, Special Galerie Peppi Guggenheim International (Berlin, Germany); Permanent group exhibition “MAIDAN. UKRAINE. ROAD TO FREEDOM”, Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Berlin, Germany); Personal exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, Visa pour l'image, Pergipinan, France.;[10] Personal exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, Barbaros square, FOTOISTANBUL, Istanbul, Turkey; Group exhibition “30 Under 30 Winners Gallery”, The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK).;[11] Group exhibition “Shift: Ukraine in Crisis”, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK. Photographs by Dondyuk as well as Alexander Chekmenev, Corentin Fohlen, Louisa Gouliamaki, Brendan Hoffman, Tom Jamieson, Marco Kesseler, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Donald Weber and Emine Ziyatdinova.;[12][13] Permanent personal exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine); Group exhibition “MAIDAN. UKRAINE. ROAD TO FREEDOM”, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, 2014; Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014; The Stay Gallery, Los Angeles, 2014.
2015 – Personal exhibition “Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation”, Orvieto Fotografia festival (Orvieto, Italia).[14]
References
- ↑ Noor-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography in Bucharest.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Magnum Photos competition ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
- ↑ Finalist for the FotoEvidence Book Award.
- ↑ Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story’ of the BD’s Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition.
- ↑ Uman, Rosh Hashana project.
- ↑ The Crime Sich project.
- ↑ TB epidemic in Ukraine project.
- ↑ Visa pour l'image: Perpignan photojournalism festival 2014.
- ↑ 30 under 30: The winners.
- ↑ "Saturday May 3 – Sunday June 29, 2014", Third Floor Gallery. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ↑ "Exhibitions: Shift: Ukraine in Crisis", VII Photo Agency. 29 September 2014.
- ↑ Maxim Dondyuk - Orvieto Fotografia 2015.