/ 2025 / Portraiture / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Svet Jacqueline Goldmeier, Ukraine
• Date of Photograph
  May 9, 2025
• Studio
  ZUMA Press
• Website
  http://www.svetjacqueline.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/___svetj

Major Yevheniy Hromadsky is an 8th-generation soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He shared his unwavering passion for fighting for Ukraine after losing his father on the first days of the full-scale invasion. A photo enthusiast himself, we found ourselves in a studio in Kyiv.

Svet Jacqueline graduated from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Recently, she was a photo essayist in the book, Relentless Courage: Ukraine And The World At War. CNN featured her as one of 12 women and nonbinary photographers capturing 2022. She is HEFAT trained, a member of Women Photojournalists of Washington, The National Press Photographers Association, and is freelancing in Ukraine- represented by ZUMA Press. ZUMA Press is a US independent press agency and wire service that provides editorial photography services.

Awards 2023 Ukraine: A War Crime, FotoEvidence Book

2023 ZEKE Magazine: “Too Young To Fight”

2023 Panelist: Documenting Ukraine, The Social Documentary Network

2023 Finalist: Rest Of World Photography Competition

2023 Re-Focus Awards Gold": “Moments Of War”

2022 CNN Women And Nonbinary Photographers Capture 2022 (click)

2022 The Yunghi Kim Grant Recipient: “Too Young To Fight” (click)


2022 NYU Exhibit: Reimagining Interiority “100 Days of Protest”

2022 Photo Book: Relentless Courage: Ukraine And The World At War (click)

2022 All About Photo: Best Modern Photographers, September

2022 Eddie Adams Workshop XXXV - Jeffersonville, NY

2022 Missouri Photo Workshop ‘74 - Excelsior Springs, MO

2022 Muse Photography Awards Gold: “Roadblock in Reynosa”

2022 Panelist: Urgency Ukraine, TheBronx Documentary Center

2022 Best of Photojournalism National Press Photographers Association: 1st Place, General News

2021 A Stranger’s Guide: California ”The Tarped Streets”

2021 House of Lucie Budapest Best In Show Gallery: “Floating Through Darkness”

2021 International Photography Awards: 1st Place “Floating Through Darkness”