"Vortex" Photograph - Limited Edition of 12

Yurii Artiukh is a renowned photographer and member of National Union of Photographers of Ukraine. Since childhood,he has been drawn to the magic of light and shadow, seeking and finding in the world around him those subtle. barely noticeable sings of poetry - Poetry with a capital P - that often fills the space around us, but whitch in most cases remains unrecognized and unidentified. The artist`s great mission in this world is to seek out, perceive, and express in their works the elusive grace of the world, combining it with their inner tuning fork - the experience and striving for perfection. Perhaps that is why eatch of Yurii`s works, each subject, whether fleetingly captured or, conversely, elaborated at lenght and thoughtfully, conveys a sense of the harmony of the human body, a state of nature, or the fleeting flutter of a bird`s wing.
Yurii was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1961. His passion for photography began at age 12, then friends gave him a simple camera for his birthday. Since then, fate has never separeted him from his lifelong passion. At the age of 9, Yurii developed a passion for sports, a passion that has remained with him throughout his life. In school, he practiced competitive acrobatics, reaching the level of Candidate Master of Sports, and then took up serious boxing and competitive ballroom dancing. After graduating from university with a degree in electronic computers, he nevertheless remained passionate about photography, persistently honing his skills until one day he saw a vacancy in a newspaper for a photo artist at an advertisting and publishing agency. As fate would have it, he won the job out of dozens of applicants. From that moment on, photography became his profession. Alongside his mandatory work, Yurii continued to intensively shoot his creative projects, participating first in national and then international photography competitions.
Yurii is a laureate of the international photography competition "Master - Kodak 97" (Moscow). A participant of two major international photo competitions, "The Al - Thani Award"(Qatar) and "Trierenberg Super Circuit" (Austria), he is bronze prize winner of the Ukrainian photo competition "Playboy Photo Award", held by Playboy magazine and Nikon in 2007 and was included in the top ten photographers of this competition in 2008. Semi - finalist of the international wildlife photo competition "Golden Turtle" (Moscow) in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and a finalist in 2010.