Illya Bel

Illya Bel, born in 1974 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Over ten years of successful work in art photography.
Numerous personal and group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.
The main creative idea: photography without limitations, trying to go beyond the image in his works, connecting space and time as elements of creativity.
2022 - joined the National Union of Photographic Artists of Ukraine.
About own creativity:
"We value photography for the opportunity to document the present, to leave the beauty of our universe to future generations, and the memory of the people near us. But it’s for long crossed the boundaries of simple fixation. Photography is creativity, self-expression, therapy, as well as prediction. Relying on the archives of the past, recording and creatively interpreting the today, we model the future."

Awards and mentions:
2024 IPA 2nd PRIZE for the project "Anthology"
2024 Analog Sparks Competition: Honorable Mention for the project "Diary 2021. Moments of life"
2024 PX3 2024 COMPETITION Award: HONORABLE MENTION for "Looking for a way" project, France
2024 TIFA 2023 (Tokyo International Foto Awards) HONORABLE MENTION
2023 ІІІ Open international competition of reportage photography "ART PRESS PHOTO 2023", Ukraine. Award: Diploma of...

Creative education (selected courses):
2012 studying at the FOTO7 photography school: basic and advanced course
2016 master class "Art portrait" by Iryna Jule
2019 master class "Portrait: idea, main character, color" by Olga Pavolga
2019 Course "Contemporary Photography with Oleksandr Lyapin" at the School of Contemporary Art
2020 online course "Modern Photography: History and Development" by Kateryna Radchenko
2021 online course "Storytelling in photography" by Kateryna Radchenko
2023 online courses of Dmytro Bogachuk "Photo projects" and "Contemporary photography"

Selected personal exhibitions
2024-08 exhibition "Internal contour" at the National Museum Taras Shevchenko (KYIV, UKRAINE)
2024-04 exhibition in GalerieN (Nienburg, Germany)
2024-03 exhibition « Des femmes en temps de guerre et de paix » (Tonnerre, France)
2023-11 exhibition « Ukraine en temps de guerre et de paix : en quête des réponses » (Lézinnes, France)
2023-11 the project "Inner contour" in the art space National Museum of Cosmonautics (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
2023-10 exhibition of the project "Echoes of identity " in the Cinema House, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2023-08 exhibition of the project "Inner contour" in the art space "Mala Opera", (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2023-02 exhibition of the project "Genocide" before the start of the hot phases of the war on 24/02/2022 in parallel in two art spaces: "Mala Opera" and "Artistic Transition", (Kyiv, Ukraine).
2023-01 exhibition of the "ELEMENTS" project, Museum of Local History, (Obukhov, Ukraine)
2022-11 exhibition "Special View", Museum of Local History, (Boyarka, Ukraine)
2022-08 exhibition of the project "Not your war?" in the Cinema House, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2022-06 exhibition of the project "ELEMENTS" in the gallery "Kyivphotos-Hall" in the art location of the Kyiv Mykola Gogol Library (Kyiv, Ukraine...