Biographies
OKSANA YUSHCO http://youok.ru/
TOMEK GOLA www.fikcja.pl
JAVIER ARCENILLAS www.javierarcenillas.com
HARVEY WANG http://pro.harveywang.com/
Oksana Yushko is a freelance photographer, based in Moscow, started working as a
professional journalist in 2006, currently focuses on personal projects in Chechnya, Russia and
Ukraine.
Yushko was a selected participant of Noor-Nikon masterclass in documentary
photography in Bucharest, Romania, in 2011, a finalist of the 2010 Conscientious Portfolio
Competition, among others.
Yushko's work has been exhibited in major galleries in Russia, also in Tampere Art Museum,
Finland during the 9th International Photo Festival BackLight2011, at NYPH Provocation 2011
and had screening at Palm Springs Photo Festival 2011 and World Photography Festival
(London, UK). Yushko was also the Grand Prize Winner of Lens Culture International Exposure
Awards 2011, a finalist of the Aftermath Project 2010 and Manuel-Riveira Oritz Foundation.
KIKE ARNAL http://www.kikearnal.com/
BURK UZZLE http://www.burkuzzle.com
MARIEKE VAN DER VELDEN http://www.mariekevandervelden.com/
BONIFACE MWANGI http://www.bonifacemwangi.com/
MAXIM DONDYUK http://maximdondyuk.com
Humanist. Freelance photographer, member of Gea Photovords. He develops humanitarian
essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any
reason or (human) right in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent.
He is a psychologist at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several international
prizes, including The Arts Press Award, Kodak Young Photographer, European Social Fund
Grant, Euro Press of Fujifilm, INJUVE, Foto Press Third Prize, Luis Valtueña of Médicos del
Mundo, Journalism Doñana's prize, Luis Ksado, Make History, UNICEF, World Photography of
the Year, Fotoevidence, Finalist of the Leica Prize 2009 and Antropography 2010.
He is a regular photographer for Fronterad, (Global Group) and in Alcobendas' Town Hall.
His reports abroad can be found in publications such as Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, Guatemala's
newspaper or Miami Herald Magazine.
Recently he has published " WELCOME" a book about the camp of refugees in Myanmar 's
Rohingya in Kutupalong, aided Médicos sin Fronteras and worked on an article about ship breakers
in Asia, "ShipBreakers".
Harvey Wang has published five books of photography, all critically acclaimed portraits of
Americans from many walks of life. He is also a commercial director and filmmaker.
His books include, Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (Random House) and Harvey Wang's New York
(W.W. Norton & Co.) a book of portraits of older New Yorkers whose occupations and way of
life are being threatened by change. This book was called "a humane modern classic" by the
Washington Post.
Wang has exhibited widely at museums, including the National Museum of American History
at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the New-York Historical Society, and he
Museum of the City of New York. His current exhibit, "Out Harvey Wang's Window" is on display
at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. In addition to his portrait
photography, Wang has exhibited photographs from his travels in Africa and across the United
States, and from his life in New York City, particularly in the East Village in the 1970s and 1980s.
His first feature film, The Last New Yorker, was released in 2010, and was called "a daring piece of work" by The New
Republic.
Yushko has been published by media across the world, including Russian Reporter, RFE/RL, The New York Times,
Guardian (UK), Stern (Germany), Mare (Germany), Le Point (France), La Vanguardia (Spain), Helsingin Sanomat (Finland),
VISION (China), RearViewMirror (Italy), PhotoRAW (Finland), among others.
Kike Arnal is a still photographer and videographer.
Orginally from Venezuela, and now based in San Francisco, Kike has covered stories in
the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
His photographs have been featured in the New York Times, Life and Mother Jones among
other leading publications.
He has directed and produced video documentaries including Yanomami Malaria, a film for
Discovery Channel about a malaria epidemic affecting scattered populations of indigenous people
in a remote area of the northern Amazon. His work has been exhibited at the United Nations
in New York.
Kike prepares the publication of his first book about the social constrasts and complexities of life in Washington DC.
Burk Uzzle has given more than four decades to his unique blend of the American sensibility,
its themes and values, and his own way of seeing. Often blending the individual psyche of a
particular place or person with his sometimes quirky, sometimes humorous, and always
respectful way of photographing, Burk has produced a body of work all his own.
Solo museum exhibitions include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
International Center of Photography in New York, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia,
and the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Books of his work include "Landscapes," "All American," "Progress Report on Civilization," and
"A Family Named Spot."
Burk was the youngest photographer ever hired by Life Magazine when he was placed under contract at the age of twenty
three, and then went on to a fifteen year membership in Magnum Photos, the international photographers co-operative,
where he served for two years as its president before leaving in 1983.
From his home in North Carolina, Burk has many new projects, books, and exhibitions in the works. Burk is in many museums
and private collections worldwide, and is represented in New York by the Laurence Miller Gallery.
"Photography started for me at fifteen when my uncle gave me his old darkroom equipment.
At the age of twenty, I began my professional career as an on-the-run news photographer,
covering local events for newspapers. Soon I also started to work as an assistant to high end
photographers on commercial photo shoots.
Feeling more and more the personal need to focus on socio-political issues, I drove in 2002 to
Sarajevo to cover a personal documentary story on daily life. Ever since more international
personal photo series have followed.
In 2007 I had the honour of becoming one of the 12 participants of World Press Photo's annual
Joop Swart Masterclass.
My photos have appeared in magazines and trade journals, adverts and government publications, nationally and
internationally. Organizations such as UNICEF, CARE International and AMREF Flying Doctors have sent me abroad
some 25 times to photograph their projects and campaigns.
My work includes portrait series, landscape series, and photo essays in which both come together."
Marieke van der Velden, the Netherlands
“Photography is my life. One of the most powerful tools in the world is a camera, it has been
used to bring down dictators, change society and influence change. I strive to create vibrant,
interesting and unusual images of the world we live. My life mantra is ‘living my life to make a
difference” and l make the difference through my work as a social documentary photographer.
Amidst the violence that followed the 2007 election in Kenya, l falsified my identity and risked my
life to photograph the atrocities my countrymen were inflicting on one another.
In 2009 l disrupted a live, nationally broadcast presidential speech to protest the violent political
system. I was beaten and arrested. "Your photography is absolutely stunning and tells an
important and powerful story for the world to hear", Hillary Clinton, the USA Secretary of State
said in a 2009 letter she wrote to me.
My work has appeared in virtually all the important newspapers in the world. I have been named the CNN Africa
Photojournalist of the year 2008 and 2010 among many other awards.”
Freelancer. Tour-leader. Photographs expeditions and extreme sports. Engaged with long-term
personal documentary projects.
Published in numerous magazines around the world. Several small personal exhibitions.
Based in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland.
Born in 1983 in Ukraine. Since 2006 has engaged in professional photography.
Dondyuk has collaborated with organisations such as: World Health Organization Regional
Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), Foundation for "Development of Ukraine" (Ukraine),
Kherson charitable foundations "Mongoose" (Ukraine).
He provides images for: Ask Images (France), EPA (Germany), Focus Picture(Russia),
Metaphor Images (Australia).
His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers across Russia, (including
Russian Reporter), Ukraine (including KyivWeekly), Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Helsingin
Sanomat (Finland) amongst others.
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OKSANA YUSHCO http://youok.ru/
TOMEK GOLA www.fikcja.pl
JAVIER ARCENILLAS www.javierarcenillas.com
HARVEY WANG http://pro.harveywang.com/
Oksana Yushko is a freelance photographer, based in Moscow, started working as a
professional journalist in 2006, currently focuses on personal projects in Chechnya, Russia and
Ukraine.
Yushko was a selected participant of Noor-Nikon masterclass in documentary
photography in Bucharest, Romania, in 2011, a finalist of the 2010 Conscientious Portfolio
Competition, among others.
Yushko's work has been exhibited in major galleries in Russia, also in Tampere Art Museum,
Finland during the 9th International Photo Festival BackLight2011, at NYPH Provocation 2011
and had screening at Palm Springs Photo Festival 2011 and World Photography Festival
(London, UK). Yushko was also the Grand Prize Winner of Lens Culture International Exposure
Awards 2011, a finalist of the Aftermath Project 2010 and Manuel-Riveira Oritz Foundation.
KIKE ARNAL http://www.kikearnal.com/
BURK UZZLE http://www.burkuzzle.com
MARIEKE VAN DER VELDEN http://www.mariekevandervelden.com/
BONIFACE MWANGI http://www.bonifacemwangi.com/
MAXIM DONDYUK http://maximdondyuk.com
Humanist. Freelance photographer, member of Gea Photovords. He develops humanitarian
essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any
reason or (human) right in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent.
He is a psychologist at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several international
prizes, including The Arts Press Award, Kodak Young Photographer, European Social Fund
Grant, Euro Press of Fujifilm, INJUVE, Foto Press Third Prize, Luis Valtueña of Médicos del
Mundo, Journalism Doñana's prize, Luis Ksado, Make History, UNICEF, World Photography of
the Year, Fotoevidence, Finalist of the Leica Prize 2009 and Antropography 2010.
He is a regular photographer for Fronterad, (Global Group) and in Alcobendas' Town Hall.
His reports abroad can be found in publications such as Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, Guatemala's
newspaper or Miami Herald Magazine.
Recently he has published " WELCOME" a book about the camp of refugees in Myanmar 's
Rohingya in Kutupalong, aided Médicos sin Fronteras and worked on an article about ship breakers
in Asia, "ShipBreakers".
Harvey Wang has published five books of photography, all critically acclaimed portraits of
Americans from many walks of life. He is also a commercial director and filmmaker.
His books include, Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (Random House) and Harvey Wang's New York
(W.W. Norton & Co.) a book of portraits of older New Yorkers whose occupations and way of
life are being threatened by change. This book was called "a humane modern classic" by the
Washington Post.
Wang has exhibited widely at museums, including the National Museum of American History
at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the New-York Historical Society, and he
Museum of the City of New York. His current exhibit, "Out Harvey Wang's Window" is on display
at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. In addition to his portrait
photography, Wang has exhibited photographs from his travels in Africa and across the United
States, and from his life in New York City, particularly in the East Village in the 1970s and 1980s.
His first feature film, The Last New Yorker, was released in 2010, and was called "a daring piece of work" by The New
Republic.
Yushko has been published by media across the world, including Russian Reporter, RFE/RL, The New York Times,
Guardian (UK), Stern (Germany), Mare (Germany), Le Point (France), La Vanguardia (Spain), Helsingin Sanomat (Finland),
VISION (China), RearViewMirror (Italy), PhotoRAW (Finland), among others.
Kike Arnal is a still photographer and videographer.
Orginally from Venezuela, and now based in San Francisco, Kike has covered stories in
the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
His photographs have been featured in the New York Times, Life and Mother Jones among
other leading publications.
He has directed and produced video documentaries including Yanomami Malaria, a film for
Discovery Channel about a malaria epidemic affecting scattered populations of indigenous people
in a remote area of the northern Amazon. His work has been exhibited at the United Nations
in New York.
Kike prepares the publication of his first book about the social constrasts and complexities of life in Washington DC.
Burk Uzzle has given more than four decades to his unique blend of the American sensibility,
its themes and values, and his own way of seeing. Often blending the individual psyche of a
particular place or person with his sometimes quirky, sometimes humorous, and always
respectful way of photographing, Burk has produced a body of work all his own.
Solo museum exhibitions include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
International Center of Photography in New York, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia,
and the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Books of his work include "Landscapes," "All American," "Progress Report on Civilization," and
"A Family Named Spot."
Burk was the youngest photographer ever hired by Life Magazine when he was placed under contract at the age of twenty
three, and then went on to a fifteen year membership in Magnum Photos, the international photographers co-operative,
where he served for two years as its president before leaving in 1983.
From his home in North Carolina, Burk has many new projects, books, and exhibitions in the works. Burk is in many museums
and private collections worldwide, and is represented in New York by the Laurence Miller Gallery.
"Photography started for me at fifteen when my uncle gave me his old darkroom equipment.
At the age of twenty, I began my professional career as an on-the-run news photographer,
covering local events for newspapers. Soon I also started to work as an assistant to high end
photographers on commercial photo shoots.
Feeling more and more the personal need to focus on socio-political issues, I drove in 2002 to
Sarajevo to cover a personal documentary story on daily life. Ever since more international
personal photo series have followed.
In 2007 I had the honour of becoming one of the 12 participants of World Press Photo's annual
Joop Swart Masterclass.
My photos have appeared in magazines and trade journals, adverts and government publications, nationally and
internationally. Organizations such as UNICEF, CARE International and AMREF Flying Doctors have sent me abroad
some 25 times to photograph their projects and campaigns.
My work includes portrait series, landscape series, and photo essays in which both come together."
Marieke van der Velden, the Netherlands
“Photography is my life. One of the most powerful tools in the world is a camera, it has been
used to bring down dictators, change society and influence change. I strive to create vibrant,
interesting and unusual images of the world we live. My life mantra is ‘living my life to make a
difference” and l make the difference through my work as a social documentary photographer.
Amidst the violence that followed the 2007 election in Kenya, l falsified my identity and risked my
life to photograph the atrocities my countrymen were inflicting on one another.
In 2009 l disrupted a live, nationally broadcast presidential speech to protest the violent political
system. I was beaten and arrested. "Your photography is absolutely stunning and tells an
important and powerful story for the world to hear", Hillary Clinton, the USA Secretary of State
said in a 2009 letter she wrote to me.
My work has appeared in virtually all the important newspapers in the world. I have been named the CNN Africa
Photojournalist of the year 2008 and 2010 among many other awards.”
Freelancer. Tour-leader. Photographs expeditions and extreme sports. Engaged with long-term
personal documentary projects.
Published in numerous magazines around the world. Several small personal exhibitions.
Based in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland.
Born in 1983 in Ukraine. Since 2006 has engaged in professional photography.
Dondyuk has collaborated with organisations such as: World Health Organization Regional
Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), Foundation for "Development of Ukraine" (Ukraine),
Kherson charitable foundations "Mongoose" (Ukraine).
He provides images for: Ask Images (France), EPA (Germany), Focus Picture(Russia),
Metaphor Images (Australia).
His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers across Russia, (including
Russian Reporter), Ukraine (including KyivWeekly), Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Helsingin
Sanomat (Finland) amongst others.
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