Artist Statement
I am interested in covering conflict and postconflict situations and using this content in the artistic explanation of the news events. My latest project, The Shelter, started as classic reportage from the kibbutzim communities bordering Gaza Strip, but eventually turned into an installation, which uses documentary photography as fiction, bringing the local problems to the universal level. I am currently working on a new installation inspired by winter protests in Moscow
Olga Kravets is a documentary photographer, based in Moscow, Russia. She started working as a journalist in 2002, working in print, online and radio. In 2006 she joined the BBC Moscow bureau as a radio producer, and in 2007 she left to go freelance as a photojournalist. Her work has appeared in a number of international publications: El Pais Magazine (Spain), Financial Times Deutschland, Helsingin Sanomat and Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Rear View Mirror (Italy), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The New York Times, and The Observer (UK), among others. She has been awarded the Grand Prize in Lens Culture International Exposure Awards, Chevening Scholarship, a Rory Peck Trust Bursary, was a nominee of the Joop Swart Masterclass 2011 and 2012, finalist of the Aftermath Project 2010, and one of the winners of PDN Photo Annual 2012, among others. Selected exhibitions and screenings include the NYPH Provocation 2011, the Palm Springs Photo Festival, World Photography festival.
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