Artur Abramiv

Artur Abramiv is an artist, documentary photographer, researcher, and journalist hailing from Western Ukraine. The area of interest of the artist includes the creation of new styles, the search for new forms of art, the creation of conceptual and research projects. He started his early artistic activity in 2005. He started exhibiting in 2010. In 2021, Abramiv became the Laureate of the Kuindzhi International Prize for the innovative art project "Thousands Shades of White", presented to the public in a personal exhibition in 2019.

He began his photography career in 2011 and has since honed his craft in documentary storytelling. Since 2020, Abramiv has covered the ethno-culture of remote Carpathian peoples, national food and drink, animal rights, and their protection, working as a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveller. Also, he covers human rights violations by totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. In 2021, he began to collaborate with Hasselblad. In 2022, Abramiv photographed the war in Ukraine for National Geographic Traveller, and later as a contract photographer for Zuma Press and Getty Images for The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Bild, ORF, Udenrigsministeriet, MSNBC News, and other media.
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AWARDS

• 2024 TIPA World Photography Award - "Picture This"
• 2023 Frankfurt Zoological Society Grand Prize - "People of the Carpathians"
• 2022 CMIFF Award -"Nature Heals"
• 2021 Kuindzhi Laureate International Prize
• 2020 National Geographic Traveller, Best Story of the Year - "Ukraine’s Untouched Mountain Village"
• 2020 National Geographic Traveller, 1st Prize - "World Public Transport"
• 2019 National Geographic Georgia, Top 20 - "Planet or Plastic?"
• 2019 PhotoFest Award - "A Planet in Balance"
• 2019 National Geographic YS Award - "A PLANET IN BALANCE"
• 2019 National Geographic Best of August
• 2019 National Geographic Photo of the Day
• 2019 National Geographic Daily Dozen
• 2011 Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 1st Prize at the regional stage in the category "Painting" of the All-Ukrainian competition "Let's unite my brothers"


PERSONAL AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2021 "Under the Pressure of the Totalitarian Regime", Zlata Plaza, Rivne, Ukraine
• 2021 "70 Years after. Forgotten Lessons of Repression for Faith. Operation ‘North’", Museum of the History of Religion, Lviv, Ukraine
• 2021 "Under the Pressure of the Totalitarian Regime", International Online P...