Brendan Hoffman is an American documentary photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a founding member of the photographic collective, Prime.[1]
Brendan Hoffman | |
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| Born | Brendan Hoffman 1980 (age 43–44) Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, journalist, artist |
Hoffman is a contributing photographer to National Geographic magazine, The New York Times, and other leading publications. He is largely known for his coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, including the Maidan protests[2][3][4][5] and war in eastern Ukraine.[6][7][8][9]
Life and work
editHoffman graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in art and art history. He began his photography career in 2006 while based in Washington, D.C., covering the White House and United States Congress as well as various political campaigns, especially the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns in Iowa.[10]
He photographed the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, traveling there aboard the USNS Comfort, for which he received an award from the White House News Photographers Association.[11]
In 2013, Hoffman moved to Moscow, Russia. He began working in Ukraine in late 2013 during the Revolution of Dignity, and covered the protests for Getty Images until their conclusion with the removal of then-president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. His work was widely published and won several awards, including from the White House News Photographers Association,[12] and was exhibited at the Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay in Canada and the Singapore International Photography Festival. He began working in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in April 2014 as war broke out, and relocated from Moscow to Kyiv later that spring. Much of his coverage of the war in Ukraine has been done for The New York Times, though he has also worked with Getty Images, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, USA Today, NPR, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets.
His coverage has included many of the major events of the war, including the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the first and Second Battle of Donetsk Airport, and the Battle of Debaltseve.
Since 2018, his work from eastern Ukraine has been exhibited in a number of Ukrainian cities, including Mariupol, Sumy, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, and Kryvyi Rih. The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago featured the work in a solo exhibition in 2019.[13][14][15] The exhibition has included, in addition to photographs, several 360º videos and a self-published newspaper titled Ukraine in a Time of War, which was also distributed free to public libraries around Ukraine.
Hoffman has done several features for National Geographic in Ukraine, on illegal amber mining,[16] the Malanka festival,[17] and the split of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church.[18]
Since 2011, Hoffman has photographed the community of Webster City, Iowa, for which he has received several grants. It was the subject of his 2017 zine Great Old Days, published in conjunction with Overlapse.[19][20][21]
His first feature story for National Geographic, on the Indus River, is due for publication in July 2020.
Awards
edit- 2019: Magnum Foundation Fund grant recipient,[22] for continuing work in Webster City, Iowa
- 2018-19: Fulbright Scholar (Ukraine)
- 2018: Philip Jones Griffiths Award,[23] for his work covering the war in eastern Ukraine
- 2017: Yunghi Grant winner,[24] for continuing work in Webster City, Iowa
- 2017: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist-in-Residence[25]
- 2017: TheDocumentaryProjectFund Established Artist Grant Winner,[26] for his work in eastern Ukraine
- 2016: Alexia Foundation Professional Grant Finalist,[27] for his work in eastern Ukraine
- 2015: National Press Photographers Association Short Grant Winner,[28] for his work in eastern Ukraine
References
edit- ^ "Prime Collective". Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Watching the protests in Kiev: One photographer's perspective". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Behind Kiev's barricades: against the odds". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Photos: Go on the Front Lines of Ukraine's Violent Protests". Wired. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Photo Essay: Instagramming Ukraine's Revolution". Newsweek. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "#LightboxFF: Brendan Hoffman in Eastern Ukraine". Time. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Brendan Hoffman: 'I was at risk of being kidnapped or shot for the first time in my career'". Bird in Flight. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "The crash site of flight MH17 - first hand account". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 11 January 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "MH17: Eyewitness Accounts of Horror and Confusion at Crash Site". Time. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "The Iowa Caucus in Two Minutes". Time. 4 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "www.brendanhoffman.com". Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "2014 Eyes of History: Brendan Hoffman wins first place in International News". White House News Photographers Association. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Brotherland: War in Ukraine". Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Review: Brendan Hoffman Captures the Daily Life of War in the Ukraine at UIMA". Third Coast Review. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Weekend Passport: Documenting a Warzone in Eastern Ukraine". WBEZ Chicago. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "The Dramatic Impact of Illegal Amber Mining in Ukraine's Wild West". National Geographic. 31 January 2017. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Bear Costumes, Dancing, Donuts—Inside Ukraine's Biggest Party". National Geographic. 20 January 2016. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "In historic decision, Ukrainian church severs ties with Russia". National Geographic. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on January 12, 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Why I'll Be Handing Out A Free Zine At Trump's Inauguration". Huck. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Bringing Rust-Belt Stories to Donald Trump's Inauguration". Time. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Great Old Days: Interview with photographer Brendan Hoffman". LensCulture. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Announcing Our 2019 Grantees". Magnum Foundation. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Brendan Hoffman (winner)". Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Yunghi Grant 2017 Awardees". 25 December 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts". Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "TheDocumentaryProjectFund Established Artist Grant Winner". Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Announcing the 2016 Alexia Grant Winners". Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "NPPA $6K Short Grant Winners Announced". Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.