and as she steadily embraced the art of photography, the country became a key focal point in her work. In 2013, she began a long-term series on Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine that she was ...

Yelena Yemchuk grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, before her family moved to the US in 1981 when she was 11 years old. As a child, she was fascinated by the almost mythological idea of Odesa as a ‘free’ place ...

Yemchuk began getting into photography when her father gave her ... but we have similar struggles and successes and triumphs, ...

Ukrainian Photography Today Works by Ukrainian photographers Alena Grom, Oksana Parafeniuk and Yelena Yemchuk that explore the fragility of childhood, the volatility of motherhood, the hopefulness ...

This story appears in the October 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty-four years before the birth of this magazine, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard sourly prophesied a ...

Serendipity plays an enormously important role in travel photography. You never know what you are going to run into, and you have to be ready. Many times you will see what could be a good ...

The Bear' actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Yelena Yemchuk have two daughters together Adam England is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. His work has previously ...

painter and filmmaker Yelena Yemchuk, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to the United States at the age of 11. Speaking to the website Fondazione Imago Mundi about her photography ...