Honorable Mention / 2023 / Fine Art / Digitally Enhanced
Traces of Aggression
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Photographer
Yana Gryniv, Ukraine
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Studio
Yana Gryniv Fine Arts
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Homes are destroyed. People are killed. Each and every one is injured. Russian aggression injures us deeply, leaving a vivid deep trace in our souls. I have learned to live with it. Those traces go deeper and deeper, forming a road map of new reality. Our reality influences our tomorrow. Our tomorrow is today. Each action leaves a trace.
The basis for this series has become my nude and abstract light photography. They were two separate worlds: one is more real; one is more abstract. However, at some point this boundary was annihilated. The vision has been inverted. They merged together.
My major life attraction is art in its rich diversity: stained glass painting, oil and acrylic painting, photography.
Art for me is the way to put questions to myself and the world and to find answers. Art reveals the depths of the world around me and inside me, and it is a real miracle. I am constantly experimenting, trying something new, because I am sincerely convinced that art is everywhere. This search inspires me to share my passion. Art not only gives more opportunities to enjoy life, but also to formulate my opinion, to be heard, to provoke others to think.
Awards Honors
2020 - participant of the Record of Ukraine "The First International Online Plein Air Ukraine 2020" No. 33/02-20577 in the category "Art, mass events, for the first time" Book of Records of Ukraine
2021, I See Awards (Ukraine), Fine Arts, special award
2021, International Abstract Photography Awards (Ukraine), nomination
2022, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA) (Japan), “Young Portfolio” shortlist
2022, Fine Art Photography Awards, Fine Art Section, Nomination
2022, The Prix de la Photographie Paris, Nature, Bronze
2022, International Photography Awards, 12 categories, 5 series, 1 single photo, “Official Selection”
2022, International Photography Awards, Category Special-Other, “Botanical Variations”, Honorable Mention
2022, Budapest International Foto Awards (bifa), “Fractured Experience” Bronze, “Natural Beauty” Bronze, “Texture of the Subconscious” Honorable Mention, “Light Path” Honorable Mention
2022, Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa), “Fractured Experience” Honorable Mention