I am a Ukrainian-born Swiss-based freelance photographer. After I left my native Kyiv, I lived in different countries in Europe and Asia. I have degrees in Economics and Marketing that helped me to have a successful international marketing career which I changed for travel and portrait photography in 2014.
My photographic approach weathered seismic shifts following the 2021 travel ban and the 2022 war in Ukraine that brought me to contemporary art photography. In search of ways to understand the events around me and my own place in them, I started working with longer-term research projects.
I love photography and I love sharing my love for it with others that's why I teach photography at SwissPhotoClub - Switzerland's biggest photography school. I'm a contributor to National Geographic Your Shot - National Geographic's photography community.
My photographs have been published in various prestigious publications including New York Times, National Geographic, GEO, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, Forbes and Le Figaro, amongst others. My works have been exposed in Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Switzerland and USA. I was awarded the title “Photographer of the Year” at the Moscow International Photo Awards and has achieved winning placements in competitions such as the International Photo Awards, Tokyo International Photo Awards, Prix de la Photographie Paris, amongst others. Additionally, she has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards.
My photographs were included in a the books "100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers”, FORM, France, 2024 and "Fresh Eyes Talent", Haute Photographie, Netherlands, 2024.
I work with both private and corporate clients. I'm available for local and international shoots.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Group Exhibition "Contemporary Ukrainian Photography 2.0", NU ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group Exhibition "100 Women", Ins Blaue Art Gallery, Remscheid, Germany
Group Exhibition "Lew Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech", Marrakech, Morocco
Group Exhibition Swiss Art Week, Galerie Calabrò, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibition "You're Innocent in Your Dreams", ZERO Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Contemporary Ukrainian Photography", V'yava VDNG, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group Exhibition "Le Langage des Images", Festival OFF Arles, Arles, France
Group Exhibition "Restart", Prospecto Galley, Vilnius, Lithuania
Group Exhibition "Contemporary Ukrainian Photography", NU ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Solo exhibition of "UNCORNERED" series, Stadtbibliotek city library, Luzern, Switzerland
2023
Solo exhibition during the "We love Ukraine" festival, series "UNCORNERED", Nidau, Switzerland
Helsinki Photo Festival 2023 - Courage, series "UNCORNERED"
Solo exhibition of "UNCORNERED" series, Kornhaus city library and Folks Hoch Schule, Bern, Switzerland
Rotterdam Photo - Exhibition 2023 - Freedom Redefined, series "UNCORNERED"
ImageNation Paris Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York
2022
Tokyo International Foto Awards Winners' Exhibition, Shibuya Center, Tokyo and House of Lucie, Budapest
ImageNation Paris Exhibition, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris
2021
Feature Shoot's “Global Billboard Project” winner, work exhibited on a billboard in Manhattan’s 9th Avenue, New York
International Photography Festival of Atout Sud “Regards de femmes », Rezé, France
2020 - Contact Photography Festival, Broken Reality, Toronto
2019 - Contact Photography Festival, What Lies Beneath, Toronto
2018 - Tokyo Midtown Design Touch , « Breathing life into things » exposition Mazda-Vogue, Tokyo
2017 - International Photography Festival Pil’Ours, Pays de Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France
AWARDS
2024
Fresh Eyes Talent ’24 Haute Photographie
3d place, Cortona On The Move, "Stolen Language" series
Winner Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech,"Reverie" series
Longlist artist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 in Photography category
2023
Tokyo International Photo Awards, Silver, Professional People/Family, series "LOVE. My family" -
ND Awards, Silver, Professional, Fine Art/Nude, series "Transcending Familiarity"
Prix de la Photographie Paris, Gold, Professional, Fine Art/Nude, series "Transcending Familiarity"; Bronze, Professional, Portraiture/Family, series "LOVE. My family"
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts: 2d place Conceptual, photo "Birth" (from "Fresco" series); 2d place Nature/Science/Animals, photo "Connection"; 3d place People/Portraits, photo "Layers and Meanings"
2022
Moscow International Photo Awards, Photographer of the Year, series "Fresco"
Siena International Photo Awards, Remarkable Artwork, Journeys and Adventures, photo "Glassfish"
2021
Tokyo International Photo Awards, 1st Place, Fine Art, series "Fresco"
Tokyo International Photo Awards, Gold, Nude/Jury's Top 5 Selection, series "Fresco"
2020
Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlist, Natural World and Wildlife, Open competition, photo "Connection"
2019
Trierenberg Super Circuit, Silver, Experimental photography, photo "Joy of Rain"
2018
International Photography Awards, 1st place, One Shot: Harmony, Enhanced, photo "Internal conversation"
Prix de la Photographie Paris, Silver, Portraiture/Self-Portrait, series "I don't cook but who cares?"
2017
Prix de la Photographie Paris, Gold, Portraiture/Other, photo "Earth or Mars?"
Trierenberg Super Circuit, Gold, Self-Portrait, photo "Redhead"
2016
International Salon of Photography Photo Artist, Silver (FIAP), Open Color, photo "Snow monkeys"