Thursday, March 31, 2022

Artist of the Day, March 31, 2022: Anastasia Vlasova, an Ukrainian photojournalist (#1533)

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Anastasia Vlasova is a Ukrainian photojournalist, notable for her coverage of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the War in Donbass.

In 2015, Vlasova got a master's degree in journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is a former staff photojournalist for Kyiv Post and collaborates with European Pressphoto Agency. Her photographs have been published in The Guardian, NBC, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other media.

Vlasova started her professional career as a photographer in December 2013 during Euromaidan protests. She worked for the website svidomo.com and got an assignment to take pictures of the protests. She subsequently went to Crimea to cover the 2014 Crimean referendum, and after the start of the War in Donbass, she was travelling all the time between Kiev and the east of Ukraine.

She received an honorable mention for 2015 IWMF 2015 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The citation includes "quality of light and texture that illicit a connection with the people and the extent of suffering they endure" for her photos and "uncover<ing> the truth of war crimes from both sides" for the photojournalist activity. One of her photographs was selected by the Time among the 100 best pictures of 2015.

Vlasova was the 2015 Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights Fellow at New York University, and attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2015.
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Ms. Anastasia Vlasova

Anastasia Vlasova in the field

Anastasia Vlasova at work

2014, Collective cleaning in Donetsk

2014, Daily routine of Aidar battalion at front line

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series

2014 Love Letters to Donbas
A pro-Russian protester checks a vehicle at a checkpoint near Izvarino village,
Lugansk Oblast. The boy is wearing a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt

2014 Love Letters to Donbas
A woman sits on a bus as she just got evacuated from the embattled town
of Debaltseve, Donetsk area

2014 Love Letters to Donbas
Yulia Novomlynets, 18, waits to receive the humanitarian aid in the local Palace of
Culture which is used as a bomb shelter in Mironovskiy

2014 Year after

2015 A view of a kindergarten that was shelled in Debaltseve, Donetsk area,
Ukraine. Children were evacuated before the shelling

 Debaltseve evacuates civilians under fire

 Donbas recovery after rocket attack

 Donetsk residents make a bomb shelter their home

 Palace of Culture becomes bomb shelter in Ukraine

Photo assignment for the Wall Street Journal

A Relatives attend the funeral of 11-year old Artem Lytkin, who was killed on
January 19, 2015 during the shelling in Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblas

A view of a school window blocked with sandbags to protect from shelling
in Verkhnyotoretske, Donetsk, Ukraine

 EuroMaidan protester throws a brick at the riot police on January 22
Ukrainian soldiers shoot from Kalashnikovs in respond
to sniper attack in Peski village

ukrainian soldiers on border with Crimea pray for peace, prepare for war


 Protesters sing as they get warm near a fire barrel at Hrushevskoho Street, Kiev

Euromaidan activists confront pro-Russian separatists in Odesa

Armed Russian-backed militants pass next to the wreckage of a
MH17 flight which crashed during flight over Donetsk

The body of one of the passengers lays near the crash site of the MH17
which crashed while flying over Donetsk

Ukraine army reserve conscript-
Nobody wants to make war, but someone needs to do it!

Ukrainian servicemen take an APC for repairs on March 3, 2022 in Sytniaky, Ukraine

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Artist of the Day, March 30, 2022: Yevgeniy Prokopov, an Ukrainian sculptor (#1532)

 Yevgeniy Prokopov was born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine). His father, Yosyp Fedorovych Prokopov, a celebrated painter and World War II veteran, firmly believed in giving his son the freedom in pursuing his artistic talents. His mother, Valentina Semenivna, a geologist, frequently took her son on geological expeditions, which later served as an inspiration to his future sculptures.

A graduate of the Kiev Arts Institute, he was a student of Vasyl Borodai.

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Yevgeniy Prokopov

  Poems, 1973

Portrait of Natalia Snarskaya, 1976

Student, 1978

 Ballerina Lyudmila Smorgacheva, 1980

 Ballerina Lyudmila Kozhukharova, 1982

 Ballerina Lyudmila Kozhukharova, 1982

 Ballerina Tatiana Borovik, 1982

Madonna and Child, 1982

  Toto, 1984

  Self-portrait, 1985

 Statue of Students and Professors of the Kyiv State University, 1989

 Restoration, 1990

Illusion, 1990

 Pieta, 1990

Descent from the Cross, 1992

Pokrova, 1992

  The Last Supper, 1992

The Ascension, 1993

Trinity, 1993

Flight, 1995

Magic Spell, 1998

  Sermon on the Mount, 1998

 Cradle, 1998

 Mirage, 2000

Red Square, 2001

  Project of Statue of famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, 2002

Church of the Nativity, 2009

Heaven’s Brigade, 2015
and all those who gave their lives for a free and sovereign Ukraine 

Heaven’s Brigade, 2015
and all those who gave their lives for a free and sovereign Ukraine

Heaven’s Brigade, 2015
and all those who gave their lives for a free and sovereign Ukraine

 Adventure, 2018

Memorial monument for famous Ukrainian literary translator, theorist, and lexicographer Mykola Lukash