Maxim Dondyuk

Maxim Dondyuk (Ukrainian: Максим Дондюк; born 1983)^[1] is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, who combines photography, video, text, and archival material in his work. He explores issues of history, memory, conflicts, and their consequences.

Maxim Dondyuk
Born	1983 (age 40–41) Slavuta, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality	Soviet, Ukrainian
Occupation(s)	Photographer, documentary photographer.
Awards	W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, International Photographer of the Year Lucie Awards (IPA), finalist in Prix Pictet 'Disorder' award
Website	maximdondyuk.com

Dondyuk's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London, and MAXXI in Rome. In 2016 he was awarded an artist residency Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Life and work

Dondyuk was born in the Ukrainian SSR. His projects include TB epidemic in Ukraine (2010–2012), a two-year work that investigates the problem of tuberculosis in Ukraine; Crimea Sich (2010–2013), a series of photographs and a short documentary film, which tells about a military upbringing of children in the secret camp in the Crimea Mountains; Between Life and Death (2017), a personal reflection on the aftermath of wars through the ruins and devastated landscapes; Culture of Confrontation (2013–2014), dedicated to the events of the Ukrainian Revolution 2013/14, which in 2019 resulted in the book of the same name; Untitled Project from Chornobyl (2016–ongoing), where Dondyuk works with found photographs in the restricted areas of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

His work has been published in magazines such as Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, Photo District News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Russian Reporter, Libération, Polka, 6Mois and Esquire. He also works with international organizations, such as International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Culture of Confrontation. Self-published, 2019.^[2]

Films

• Crimea Sich (2013) – short film
• Culture of Confrontation – video installation

Awards

• 2012: Grand Prix Best Global Health Story of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition^[3]
• 2012: Finalist for a grant of The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film^[4]
• 2013: Shortlist in the Portraiture category of Sony World Photography Awards^[5]
• 2013: Finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund^[6]
• 2014: Magnum Photos competition '30 under 30' for emerging documentary photographers^[7]
• 2014: Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award^[8]
• 2015: Winner of the Photo District News Photo Annual 2015 in documentary category^[9]
• 2015: Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Press War Category, 1st Prize^[10]
• 2015: Prix Pictet Photography Prize is Disorder, Shortlist^[11]
• 2015: 1st place in Editorial: General News category, 13th Annual Lucie Awards (IPA)^[12]
• 2015: Editorial Photographer of the Year, Lucie Awards (IPA)^[12]
• 2015: International Photographer of the Year, Lucie Awards (IPA)^[13]
• 2016: LensCulture Exposure Awards, 3rd Prize Series^[14]
• 2016: Magnum Photography Awards, Finalist^[15]
• 2017: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, Finalist^{[citation needed]}
• 2021: Ukrainian Cultural Fund, Grant recipient^{[citation needed][16]}
• 2022: Polka Award for Photographer of the Year^[17]
• 2022: Recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Ukraine 2014/22^[18]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2011: Tuberculosis, Center of Documentary Photography «Fotodoc», Moscow^[19]
• 2012: TB epidemic in Ukraine, Donetsk;^[20] Zaporizhzhia;^[21] Uzhhorod; Vinnytsia; Dnipro, Ukraine^{[citation needed]}
• 2013: Uman, Rosh Hashanah, Gallery Camera, Kyiv, Ukraine^[22]
• 2013: Culture of Confrontation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine^{[citation needed]}
• 2018: Past. Present. Future., M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine^[23]
• 2019: Culture of Confrontation, Municipal Museum im Kornhouse, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany;^{[citation needed]} Municipal Gallery Ehingen, Germany^[24]
• 2021: Untitled project from Chornobyl, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine^[25]
• 2022: Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the House of Lucie, Budapest, Hungary^[26]
• 2022: Modern Ukrainian landscape, Ya Gallery Center, Lviv, Ukraine^[27]
• 2022: Fight back / Відсіч, Dukat gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine^[28]
• 2023: Ukraine 2014/22, Municipal Gallery Ehingen, Germany^{[citation needed]}

Group exhibitions

• 2014: Road to Freedom, Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin^[29]
• 2014: Apocalypse of the 20th Century, Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II, Kyiv, Ukraine^{[citation needed]}
• 2014: Culture of Confrontation, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France^[30]
• 2015–2017: Culture of Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris;^[31] CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium;^[32] Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany;^[33] International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland;^[34] LUMA Westbau – Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland;^[35] MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy;^[36] The Old Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece;^[37] Somerset House, London; Bank Gallery, Tokyo;^[38] Dublin Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland; Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain;^[39] Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA^[40]
• 2020: Untitled Project from Chornobyl, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland^[41]
• 2020: Dealing with Memory, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany^[42]
• 2023: Between Life and Death, Le Carré d'Art, Chartres de Bretagne, France^[43]
• 2023: Ukraine 2014/22, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy^[44]
• 2023: War. Ukraine 2022, Le bleu du ciel, Lyon, France^[45]

Screenings

• Crimea Sich, American Independence Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013^[46]
• Culture of Confrontation video installation, The Church of Saint-Merri, Paris, 2015; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA, 2017; Ukraine 2022, PHOTO ELYSÉE, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023

References

1. "Maxim Dondyuk - ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
2. "Maxim Dondyuk: Culture of the Confrontation". British Journal of Photography. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
3. "BD Social Responsibility – Awareness Programs". bd.com. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
4. "Maxim Dondyuk | The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film". Retrieved 5 August 2015.
5. "Portraiture – World Photography Organisation". World Photography Organisation. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
6. "W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, INC. – The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts". smithfund.org.
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11. "Maxim Dondyuk". www.prixpictet.com. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
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14. "LensCulture Exposure Awards 2015". LensCulture. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
15. "Magnum Photography Awards 2016". LensCulture. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
16. "Український культурний фонд". ucf.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 May 2023.
17. "Maxim Dondyuk, lauréat du Prix Polka du photographe de l'année 2022". Polka Magazine (in French). 19 December 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
18. "Maxim Dondyuk Receives 43rd Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for "Ukraine 2014/22," Documenting Country's Battle for Independence". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
19. "Открытие выставки Максима Дондюка "Туберкулез" :: Выставки :: События ::". sakharov-center.ru. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
20. "Беспрецедентная фотовыставка украинского фотографа Максима Дондюка "Остановим туберкулез в Украине". | АртДонбасс – художественно-выставочный центр". artdonbass.com.ua. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
21. "Фотограф-документалист Максим Дондюк: "Туберкулез страшен, но человеческое безразличие и отношение к больным страшнее" – ПОРОГИ – Новости СМИ. Запорожье. Городской портал". misto.zp.ua. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
22. . fotogaidai.org. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
23. "У Києві відкривається виставка про життя переселенців". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). 1 February 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
24. "Stadt Ehingen (Donau)". www.ehingen.de. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
25. "Фотовиставку до 35-х роковин Чорнобильської катастрофи відкрили у МЗС". www.ukrinform.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 3 May 2023.
26. "Maxim Dondyuk: Russian invasion of Ukraine & UkraineMoments Exhibition". House of Lucie. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
27. "Максим Дондюк. Сучасний український ландшафт". Я Галерея (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 3 May 2023.
28. "Проєкт Максима Дондюка "Відсіч"". МіТЄЦ. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
29. "Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie". Facebook.
30. "Visa pour l'image: Perpignan photojournalism festival 2014".
31. "Disorder Finalists' Exhibition, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris". Prix Pictet. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
32. "CAB Art Center". CAB.
33. "Prix Pictet – Kunstverein in Hamburg". www.kunstverein.de. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
34. "Disorder". International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
35. "Prix Pictet: Disorder". Westbau. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
36. "Disorder | MAXXI". www.maxxi.art. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
37. "Disorder, The Municipal Gallery of Athens". prixpictet.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
38. "Disorder, Bank Gallery, Tokyo". prixpictet.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
39. "Disorder at Palau Robert, Barcelona". Prix Pictet. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
40. "Prix Pictet: Disorder". Museum of Photographic Arts. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
41. "Maxim Dondyuk "UNTITLED PROJECT from Chernobyl"". www.vintagephotofestival.com. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
42. "Dealing with Memory | Exhibition with OSTLOOK at FRAPPANT Hamburg". EEP Berlin. 21 August 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
43. Photographie, L'Œil de la (19 January 2023). "Carré d'Art : Parle-leur de batailles, de météores et de caviar d'aubergine". L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine (in French). Retrieved 20 May 2023.
44. "Fondazione Imago Mundi - Maxim Dondyuk". Fondazione Imago Mundi. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
45. "bienvenue au bleu du ciel". Le bleu du ciel (in French). Retrieved 20 May 2023.
46. "AIFF 2013". American Independent Film Festival. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

External links

• Official website