Yuriy Danchenko

I have traveled the world for business most of my life, but photography has always been my inner passion since I was a student.
After retirement from business, I decided to focus entirely on photography.
I continue taking photos, but since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, I have been photographing mainly in Ukraine.
Now I have the opportunity to offer selected works from my vast photo archive to photography lovers all over the world.
I will also be happy to offer my Ukrainian works that may be of interest to the world community.
This would be too immodest a comparison, but I want to remind art lovers that Henri Rousseau, a French post-impressionist painter, also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), began painting seriously in his early forties; at the age of 49, he retired to devote himself fully to art.
I also greatly respect Winston Churchill's artistic passion, who never quit politics but created 105 paintings simply for his pleasure.
I love such an approach to self-expression in art, and in my case, in photography, for the aesthetic pleasure of my viewers and myself.

2020 – Yuriy Danchenko participated in the International Photo Kyiv Fair 2020 with his photo series ROADS. The international jury selected 9 photo galleries, 20 independent photographers, and 3 special projects to participate in the Photo Kyiv Fair 2020. The 2020 fair was forced to be conducted ONLINE because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021 - As one of ten photographers, Yuriy Danchenko was selected for the 5th Anniversary of the International Photo Kyiv Exhibition with the DANZA DOWN series.
The Photo Kyiv 2021 was held with the support of the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska. Among the partners of the international photo event were the Department of Culture of Kyiv and the Embassies of the Netherlands and Switzerland.