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Maxim Dondyuk

Crimea Sich
About Maxim Dondyuk

Maxim Dondyuk (b. 1983) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. His first projects were made out of a long-term immersion into the social and historical reality of his country. But later he moved away from classical documentary narrative form and rather plunged into emotions, reflection, and more universal terms. The subsequent projects become the author’s experimentation with themes, meanings, and forms.

His works have been exhibited widely at the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), Somerset House (London), MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Stadtisches Museum im Kornhouse (Germany), the Biennale of Photography in Bogota (Colombia), among others. He was honored numerous awards, including the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Lucie Awards, and finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

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  • Between the Anvil and the Hammer: Confronting Culture
    Maxim Dondyuk
    In Maxim Dondyuk’s new book, Ukraine’s 2013-2014 civil unrest is rendered as a conflict between shadows and light, snow and fire, two generations, and two layers of culture colliding on the territory of a single country.
  • Crimea Sich: Children’s Military Summer Camps
    Maxim Dondyuk
    In the final summers before the violent outbreak of war between Ukraine and Russia, a small military camp for children presaged the growing militancy and fraying unity that was soon to come apart in spectacular fashion.
  • Ukraine: Culture of the Confrontation
    Maxim Dondyuk
    The winter of 2013 changed Ukraine forever — three months of bloody clashes, tears, fear, Molotov cocktails, burning car tires, deaths, and the struggle between groups with two opposing world views. Here are 60 cinematic images, a multimedia presentation and an impassioned personal statement.
  • TB in Ukraine
    Maxim Dondyuk
    “People don’t guess that a modern-day Auschwitz is nearby.” A deep and touching photoessay documenting the countless individuals affected by the huge tuberculosis crisis currently plaguing Eastern Ukraine.
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