The Bronx Documentary Center in New York City will exhibit photographs by Kyiv Post photographer Anastasia Vlasova as a part of Magnum Foundation’s project What Work on Nov. 10 – 20.
Nine documentary photographers from Iran, Ukraine, Slovenia, Syria, India, Ecuador, China, and the Philippines covered intolerance issues around the globe for the Magnum Foundation’s art project.
Vlasova’s contribution to the exhibition was her project Homeland in Exile about building bridges between communities. She focuses on the community of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group of Turkic Muslims who fled the peninsula after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and moved to western Ukrainian city Lviv, where most of the population are Greek Catholics.
The project tells three stories of people who successfully built up their community and integrated in local life despite the stereotypes against them. The stories include pictures and videos documented by Vlasova this spring, combined with text and graphics.
Vlasova, 23, who also a freelancer of the European Pressphoto Agency, has covered Ukraine EuroMaidan Revolution (2013-4), Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, and the resulting was in the east of the country, including the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Donetsk.
Vlasova’s work has been widely admired. She won first place for College Photographer of the Year’s Spot News category and third place at Picture of the Year International. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in 2015 as part of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Vlasova is also a finalist of Leica Oscar Barnack Award.
The What Works project will also be shown in video form at the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia in December. All the photographers of the project are the fellows of Magnum Foundation, which provided scholarships and intensive training each year to regional photojournalists and activists to tell stories in their home communities.
What Works (documentary photography project). Nov. 10 – 20. Thursday – Friday 3-7 p.m. Saturday – Sunday 1-5 p.m. Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtland Ave, Bronx 10451, New York).
