International Photographer of the Year, Lucie Awards (IPA), Prix Pictet ‘Disorder’, The Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award, The Best Global Health Story of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition'.
Maxim Dondyuk (Ukrainian: Максим Дондюк; born 1983, Ukraine) is a photographer, visual artist. His professional career began in Ukrainian media as a photojournalist in 2007. Since 2010 he is a freelancer, works on creating and promoting his own documentary projects.
He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including Finalist of the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, International Photographer of the Year in Lucie Awards, Winner of the Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image, Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award at Visa pour l’Image, Magnum Photos competition ‘30 under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers, Finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, Finalist for the FotoEvidence Book Award, Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story’ of Becton Dickinson (BD)’s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition' etc.
Life and work
Dondyuk's first long-term projects ‘Uman, Rosh Hashana’ (2008-2012), ‘The Crimea Sich’ (2010-2013), ‘TB epidemic in Ukraine’ (2010-2012) are an analysis of the time, situation. Being not interested in stereotypes, he is a direct participant in the events, and uses personal experience and emotions in order to emphasize the basic meaning of the events.
From the project ‘Culture of the Confrontation’, 2013-2014, Dondyuk’s perception of photography has changed. He began filling his works with second meaning and associational level. He doesn’t want to specify the time period, the place and reasons. Through photography he wants to show eternal themes, wants people to associate his works with their memories from reading books, music, their own life.
2011: TUBERCULOSIS, Center of Documentary Photography «FOTODOC» (Moscow).
2011: Exhibitions and screenings TB epidemic in Ukraine and ’’Uman, Rosh Hashana, Vilnius Photo Circle (Vilnius, Lithuania).
2012: TB epidemic in Ukraine, Donetsk, Ukraine, 2012; Kirovohrad Regional Museum of Art, Kirovograd, Ukraine, 2012; Art Center Kvartira, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2012; Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 2012; Uzhgorod, Ukraine, 2012; Zaporozhye, Ukraine, 2012; PhotoReportAge Festival, Pomarico, Italy, 2013.
2013: Old Age, Municipal Art Gallery (Nova Kachovka, Ukraine).
2014–2015: Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation, PARTcom gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine; Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation, Visa pour l'image, Pergipinan, France, 2014; Barbaros square, FotoIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (permanent exhibition, 2014 onwards); Orvieto Fotografia festival, Orvieto, Italia, 2015.
Group exhibitions and exhibitions during festivals
2012: Exhibition Best Photographer 2011, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography (Moscow).
2012: Exhibition Hope for a Healthy World, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph (Charlottesville, USA).
2012: Group exhibition Other World (Leeds, UK).
2012: Exhibition 2012 FotoEvidence Book Award, VII Photo Agency Gallery (New York).
2012: Exhibition and screening The Сrimea Sich and ’’The Story of One Man, Vilnius Photo Circle (Vilnius, Lithuania).
2013: Exhibition Photographer of the Year, M17 Contemporary Art Center (Kyiv, Ukraine).
2013: Exhibition Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House (London).
2013: Showing a short documentary film CRIMEA SICH, American Independence Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine).
2014: Exhibition Euromaidan: culture of the confrontation, Special Galerie Peppi Guggenheim International (Berlin).
2014: Permanent group exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Berlin).
2014: Group exhibition 30 Under 30 Winners Gallery, The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK).
2014: Group exhibition Shift: Ukraine in Crisis, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK. Photographs by Dondyuk as well as Alexander Chekmenev, Corentin Fohlen, Louisa Gouliamaki, Brendan Hoffman, Tom Jamieson, Marco Kesseler, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Donald Weber and Emine Ziyatdinova.
2014: Group exhibition MAIDAN. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, 2014.
2014: Group exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014.
2015: Group exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, The Stay Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015.
2015: Group Exhibition A War in Europe’s Neighborhood, Eurooppasali, Helsinki, Finland.
2015: Group Exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C..
2015: Group Exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C..
2015: Open space group exhibition dedicated to 70 years of peace in a small town Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany.
2015: The Culture of the Confrontation project like part of the group exhibition ‘At the borders of the EU’, People Palace, Bucharest, Rumania.
2015: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation, FIOF / R-Evolution Summer Festival, Minturno, Barletta, Salerno, Porto Empedocle, Italy.
2015: Group exhibition within the framework of Global Control and Censorship at ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
2015: Exhibition Battle of Ilovaisk, Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015: Group Exhibition Battle of Ilovaisk, National Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015: Group Exhibition …Forgotton by World, Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
2015: Group Exhibition IPA Best of Show, Splashlight, New-York, United States.
2015: Group Exhibition Battle of Ilovaisk, National Architecture-Historical Sanctuary Chernihiv Ancient, Chernihiv, Ukraine.
2015: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation, La Quatrieme Image Photo Fair, Paris, France.
2015: Group Exhibition Battle of Ilovaisk, Museum of the History, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine.
2015: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.
2015: Group Exhibition Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale, United States.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, Somerset House, London.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy.
2016: Group Exhibition …Forgotton by World, European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, Poland.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, LUMA Westbau – Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of LensCulture Exposure Awards, Photo London, Somerset House, London.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation at Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
2016: Exhibition This is War at the 5th LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism, Hanover, Germany.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, The Old Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2016: Exhibition Culture of the Confrontation as a part of Prix Pictet Disorder finalists exhibition, Bank Gallery, Tokyo.
2016: Exhibition This is War as a part of group exhibition Deformation at Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon, Korea.
