Maxim Dondyuk

In 2016 he was awarded an artist residency Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

• Name — Maxim Dondyuk • Birthplace — Slavuta, Ukrainian SSR • Website — maximdondyuk.com • Occupation — 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

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.

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

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

• Crimea Sich, American Independence Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013 • 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

Maxim Dondyuk is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded as photographer and artist.