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Maxim Dondyuk

Photographer

Maxim Dondyuk

CULTURE of the CONFRONTATION

Ukrainian revolution brought new spirit, people became one organism that fight with a great passion and intensity for happy future.
Euromaidan turned into a real performance, where started the battle of opposites. Good and evil, light and shadow, thick black smoke and whiteness of the February snow. On the revolutionary canvas creepy bloody scenes interwove with incredibly beautiful, from visually side, views. Very often I lost the line between reality and fiction. I forgot the place, time and the cause of what was happening. In one moment the battle scenes reminded terrible days of the previous wars, legends. In another - frosty, fiery battle turned Maidan Nezalezhnosty into a phantasmagoric place.

Maxim Dondyuk

Maxim Dondyuk, b. 1983. Visual Artist, Photographer
His works were exhibited internationally at the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), Somerset House (London), MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Stadtisches Museum im Kornhouse (Germany), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (Geneva), the Biennale of Photography in Bogota (Colombia), among others. 
He is a finalist of the Prix Pictet ‘Disorder’ Photography Prize, International Photographer of the Year in Lucie Awards, finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, winner of the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award, Magnum Photos competition ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers, to name a few. Maxim has been awarded an artist residency Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France and received NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography in Bucharest, Romania.
His works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Photography (Colombia), Benaki Museum (Greece), Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II (Ukraine) and private collections.
His projects were featured in GUP, British Journal of Photography, TIME, New York Times, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, STERN, Rolling Stone, Polka, 6Mois, Paris Match, Le Monde, PDN, Bloomberg Businessweek, and others.