honorable mention
Oleksandr Osipov ukraine
title
Naftalab performance laboratory
Started the career in 2009, in sports reportage. Worked with the foreign and Ukrainian media.
2012-2016 - FC Metalist Kharkiv staff photographer. Became the best photographer of Ukrainian Football Premier League three times in a row (2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15). The winner of Ukrainian sports photography competition under the aegis of the National Olympic Committee (2015, 2017). Also worked as a freelancer for UEFA, FIBA and well-known Ukrainian sports clubs, in particular FC "Shakhtar" (Donetsk).
Freelancer as of 2016. Expanded field of activity in reportage photography and photojournalism highlighting social events, arts, the Russia's war against Ukraine. Worked as a stringer for Reuters, EPA.
Became internationally known in March 2022 with video series "In the streets of Kharkiv", series of performances of cellist Denys Karachevtsev playing Bach in the ruined streets of Kharkiv. The project received huge coverage in social media and TV. The video has been presented on the "Late Show with David Letterman" by CBS.
Participant of the number of collective exhibitions dedicated to the war in Ukraine.
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entry description
A performance laboratory at the independent Ukrainian theatre Nafta (Oil Theater) in Kharkiv that took place over a month in late 2023. The city of Kharkiv is located near the front line and regularly suffers from rocket attacks from Russia. Due to the constant threat, theater schools in the city provide training only online, and in the laboratory, young theater artists gained professional experience, met, and experimented. Here, students practiced different methodologies of physical theater, explored performative existence on stage, and transformed pain and loss into artistic unreality. Together with the laboratory curator, director and playwright, they created their own performance using the method of devised theater, in which they shared their own experiences of interaction with the city undergoing change and destruction.about the photographer
Ukrainian photographer. Born in 1985 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Started the career in 2009, in sports reportage. Worked with the foreign and Ukrainian media.
2012-2016 - FC Metalist Kharkiv staff photographer. Became the best photographer of Ukrainian Football Premier League three times in a row (2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15). The winner of Ukrainian sports photography competition under the aegis of the National Olympic Committee (2015, 2017). Also worked as a freelancer for UEFA, FIBA and well-known Ukrainian sports clubs, in particular FC "Shakhtar" (Donetsk).
Freelancer as of 2016. Expanded field of activity in reportage photography and photojournalism highlighting social events, arts, the Russia's war against Ukraine. Worked as a stringer for Reuters, EPA.
Became internationally known in March 2022 with video series "In the streets of Kharkiv", series of performances of cellist Denys Karachevtsev playing Bach in the ruined streets of Kharkiv. The project received huge coverage in social media and TV. The video has been presented on the "Late Show with David Letterman" by CBS.
Participant of the number of collective exhibitions dedicated to the war in Ukraine.
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