Oksana Yushko
Moscow, Russia
Oksana Yushko is a photographer, multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Her approach combines documentary studies, sociology, and anthropology, while her practice expands to different media including photography, video, sculpture and installations.
Taking up her art practices as a way to connect with other people and cultures, her projects – mainly based in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region – highlight a diverse range of important humanitarian issues.
Yushko’s research lies in the intersection of memory and post-trauma, investigates the aftermath of conflicts and tragedies, questions interpretation of facts and historical narratives, addresses the topics of borders, ecology, artnetology and biopolitics. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, and held in institutional and private collections in Russia, US, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, England, and Spain to name a few.
Yushko has received numerous awards including Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2017, Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for web journalism 2014, Lens Culture International Exposure Award 2011, The Aftermath 2009, among others.
2020 - Kassel Dummy Award shortlist, 2018 - The Royal Photographic Society's, 2017 - Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2017, 2015 - Award of Excelence in NPPA Contest, 2014 - Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for Web Journalism, 2013 - BURN Magazine EPF grant, 2011 - Grand Prize Winner of Lens Culture Award, 2010 - Finalist of the Aftermath Project
- Arts
- Breaking news
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Video capture
Grozny: Nine Cities
Oksana Yushko
Russia, Chechnya, 2009-2018
Cross-media project by Oksana Yushko, Olga Kravets and Maria Morina.
Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya, is a melting pot for changing Сaucasus society that is trying to overcome a post-trauma shock of two recent wars and find its own way of life in between traditional Сhechen values, Muslim traditions, and globalisation, to cope with rapidly changing role of women, increasing contrast between rich and poor and political games.
Grozny: Nine Cities project is inspired by a Thornton Wilder book, Theophilus North, and centers on the idea of nine cities being hidden in one, which gives us a concept to explore specific aspects of the aftermath of two Chechen wars considering them as 'cities' hidden within Grozny.
http://grozny.chewbah.at/fr/
Grozny: Nine Cities Web-Documentary
Oksana Yushko
Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya, is a melting pot for changing Сaucasus society that is trying to overcome a post-trauma shock of two recent wars and find its own way of life in between traditional Сhechen values, Muslim traditions, and globalization, to cope with rapidly changing role of women, increasing contrast between rich and poor and political games. Our project Grozny: Nine Cities is inspired by a Thornton Wilder book, Theophilus North, and centers on the idea of nine cities being hidden in one, which gives us a concept to explore specific aspects of the aftermath of two Chechen wars considering them as ”cities” hidden within Grozny.
http://grozny.chewbah.at/fr/
