Dmytro Kupriyan

Worked as a photojournalist at news agencies and later started to work on the topic of tortures doing a photo project about violence in ukrainian police (project "TORTURED") and aftermath of it. Then he shift his camera to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine (projects "Fragments of War", "Banality of Aggression" and "WHEN THE WAR IS OVER") and later as a conclusion he moved to the topic of dialog in society as a reconciliation making a video about necessarines of Dialog trying to show that the only way to solve the problems and misunderstanding in societies is the dialog in all meaning of it: verbal, subverbal, physical, etc.
Also he is interesting in ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (name of an old national Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of national enthusiasts. He went on a lot of trips over Dnipro river and Black Sea and made a set of photographs about that. On the boat he served as sailor, boatswain, motorist and made a lot of wood works.
In 2015 he serve a year in army photographing during the Ukrainian-Russia conflict in Donbass.

List of exhibitions:
September 2009 - exhibition "TORTURED" in Kiev, "Lenin" club.
December 2012 - report and presentation "TORTURED" in Lawyer Academy, Lviv.
May 2013 - exhibition "TORTURED" during the DOKUDAYS festival in Kiev.
2012 - honorable mention with project "TORTURED" at FotoVisura Grant 2012.
2012 - shortlisted with project "TORTURED" at Viewbook Photostory 2012.
2013 - shortlisted with project "TORTURED" at Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2013.
July 2013 - exhibition "TORTURED" on the stella of Independence on Maidan of Independence, Kiev.
January 2015 - published book "MAIDAN".
January 2016 - online exhibition "Fragments of War" on SDN http://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Dmitry_Kupriyan/3208
February 2016 - group exhibition "Moments" in PH21gallery, Budapest.
May 2016 - take a part with selfmade photobook "Fragments of War" and printed photobook "MAIDAN" on Photobook Show in Kiev.
September 2016 - selfmade photobook "Fragments of War" and printed photobook "MAIDAN" was exhibited on ukrainian stand on Odessa//Batumi Photo Days in Batumi.
2016 - nominee in FAPA contest category "Conceptual photo" with project "Fragments of War".
November 2016 - selfmade photobook "Fragments of War" was exhibited at Polyco...