Maxim Dondyuk (b. 1983) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. His first projects were made out of a long-term immersion into the social and historical reality of his country. But later he moved away from classical documentary narrative form and rather plunged into emotions, reflection, and more universal terms. The subsequent projects become the author’s experimentation with themes, meanings, and forms.

His works have been exhibited widely at the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), Somerset House (London), MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Stadtisches Museum im Kornhouse (Germany), the Biennale of Photography in Bogota (Colombia), among others. He was honored numerous awards, including the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Lucie Awards, and finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.