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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 |
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Anastasia Vlasova in the field
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Anastasia Vlasova at work
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| 2014, Collective cleaning in Donetsk |
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| 2014, Daily routine of Aidar battalion at front line |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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| 2014, Love Letters to Donbas Series |
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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 |
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2014 Love Letters to Donbas
A woman sits on a bus as she just got evacuated from the embattled town
of Debaltseve, Donetsk area |
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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 |
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| 2014 Year after |
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2015 A view of a kindergarten that was shelled in Debaltseve, Donetsk area,
Ukraine. Children were evacuated before the shelling |
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| Debaltseve evacuates civilians under fire |
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| Donbas recovery after rocket attack |
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| Donetsk residents make a bomb shelter their home |
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| Palace of Culture becomes bomb shelter in Ukraine |
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| Photo assignment for the Wall Street Journal |
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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 |
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A view of a school window blocked with sandbags to protect from shelling
in Verkhnyotoretske, Donetsk, Ukraine |
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| EuroMaidan protester throws a brick at the riot police on January 22 |
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Ukrainian soldiers shoot from Kalashnikovs in respond
to sniper attack in Peski village
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| ukrainian soldiers on border with Crimea pray for peace, prepare for war |
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| Protesters sing as they get warm near a fire barrel at Hrushevskoho Street, Kiev |
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| Euromaidan activists confront pro-Russian separatists in Odesa |
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Armed Russian-backed militants pass next to the wreckage of a
MH17 flight which crashed during flight over Donetsk |
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The body of one of the passengers lays near the crash site of the MH17
which crashed while flying over Donetsk |
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Ukraine army reserve conscript-
Nobody wants to make war, but someone needs to do it! |
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| Ukrainian servicemen take an APC for repairs on March 3, 2022 in Sytniaky, Ukraine |
