About Oksana Yushko

Oksana Yushko is a Moscow based photographer and visual artist, currently focused on personal projects in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region. Her approach combines documentary studies, sociology, and anthropology, while her practice expands to different media including photography, video, and installations.
Yushko’s work investigates the aftermath of conflicts and tragedies, relationships between human and nature, focuses on the topics of collective and private memory, ecology and biopolitics.
Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, and held in public and private collections.
Yushko has received numerous awards including Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2017, Award of Excellence in NPPA Contest 2015, Prix Bayeux Calvados award for web journalism 2014, BURN Award 2013, Lens Culture International Exposure Award 2011, among others.

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