Evgeniy Maloletka

Evgeniy Maloletka studied at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The recorded working language is Ukrainian, English and Russian. Employment is recorded with Associated Press and Ukrainian Independent Information Agency. Distinctions recorded are Free Media Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, Shevchenko National Prize and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.

• Name — Evgeniy Maloletka • Native Name — Євген Малолєтка • Education — Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute • Born — 1 March 1987 • Birthplace — Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2023) Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (2023) Shevchenko National Prize (2024) • Illustration — OSCE SMM monitoring the movement of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine, 2015.

Maloletka was born in Berdiansk. He studied electronics at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and graduated in 2010.

In 2009, he started as a staff photographer for UNIAN. Later, he worked as a freelancer and collaborated with the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and Der Spiegel, among others. In 2013–2014, Maloletka covered the protests in Kyiv that led to the ouster of President Yanukovych.On 1 December 2013 while he was filming on Bankova Street near the Presidential Administration building, Berkut officers broke his arm and smashed his camera. In 2020–21, Maloletka covered the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. In particular, his photo of the doctor Evhen Venzhynovych was widely used for social advertisement. In February and March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Associated Press staff member Mstyslav Chernov, videoproducer Vasilisa Stepanenko, and Maloletka, freelancers working for AP, stayed in Mariupol, which was encircled by the Russian troops, under siege, and extensively bombed, whereas the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Defense Ministry claimed that Russia only targets military installations. Chernov, Maloletka, and Stepanenko were among the few journalists, and, according to the AP, the only international journalists in Mariupol during that period, and their photographs were extensively used by Western media to cover the situation. According to Chernov, on 11 March they were in a hospital taking photos when they were taken of the city with the assistance of Ukrainian soldiers. They managed to escape from Mariupol unharmed.