Alina Smutko
{{Short description|Ukrainian photographer and photojournalist}}
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Alina Viktorivna Smutko{{cite web |url=http://pnpu.edu.ua/news/studenty-fakuljtetu-filologhiji-ta-zhurnalistyky-pryzery-vseukrajinsjkoji-olimpiady-z-zhurnalistyky.html |title=Студенти факультету філології та журналістики — призери Всеукраїнської олімпіади з журналістики |author= |date= |website=Полтавський національний педагогічний університет імені Володимира Короленка |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} ({{langx|uk|Аліна Вікторівна Смутко}}, born 1992{{cite web |url=https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2023/02/20/photographer-says-capturing-ukraine-conflict-helped-her-not-go-crazy/ |title=Photographer says capturing Ukraine conflict helped her ‘not go crazy’ |author= |date=2023-02-20 |website=Jerse Yevening Post |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }}) is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Biography
She graduated from the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University (2014, bachelor's degree),{{cite web |url=https://kafjournalistik.com.ua/?page_id=49 |title=Випускники |author= |date= |website=Кафедра журналістики |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} and the School of Journalism and Communications of the Ukrainian Catholic University (2016, master's degree).{{cite web |url=https://www.alinasmutkoph.com/bio |title=Bio |author= |date= |website=Alina Smutko |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-17 |quote= |language= }}
In 2016–2019, she was in the occupied Crimea as a freelance reporter for the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe.{{cite web |url=https://ukrainianphotographers.com/alina_smutko |title=Аліна Смутко |author= |date= |website=UAPP |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} In 2019, Russia declared her persona non grata for her professional activities and banned her from entering Crimea and Russia for ten years.{{cite web |url=https://armyinform.com.ua/2023/03/20/u-dnipri-eksponuyetsya-fotovystavka-istoriyi-z-okupovanogo-krymu/ |title=У Дніпрі експонується фотовиставка "Історії з окупованого Криму" |author=Олександр Колесник |date=2023-03-20 |website=АрміяInform |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }}{{cite web |url=https://ppu.gov.ua/press-center/u-kropyvnytskomu-vidkrylasya-fotovystavka-istoriyi-z-okupovanogo-krymu/ |title=У Кропивницькому відкрилася фотовиставка "Історії з окупованого Криму" |author= |date=2023-02-20 |website=Представництво Президента України в Автономній Республіці Крим |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }}
During 2021–2023, she worked in the Suspilne Novyny team. She covered events in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast, Transnistria, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Her work has been published on Hromadske, Focus, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Radio Liberty, The New York Times,{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/04/world/russia-ukraine-drone-attack-news |title=Russia-Ukraine War. White House Rejects Kremlin Claim of a Role in Explosions |author= |date=2023-05-05 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} The Telegraph,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/05/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-putin-drone-strike-zelensky/ |title=Ukraine war live: Russia orders evacuations 'ahead of Ukrainian counter offensive' |author= |date=2023-05-03 |website=The Telegraph |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} Politico, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, The Independent,{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/ukraine-war-photographer-russian-propaganda-b2077592.html |title=‘It makes our voice as a country louder’: A Ukraine photographer’s battle against Russian propaganda |author=Alex Hickson |date=2022-05-15 |website=Independent |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} The Guardian,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/may/05/russia-ukraine-war-live-kyiv-shoots-down-own-drone-over-capital-zelenskiy-speaks-at-the-hague?page=with:block-6455295e8f0893b8de1f058a#block-6455295e8f0893b8de1f058a |title=Summary |author= |date= |website=The Guardian |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }} Reuters.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/cherry-blossom-mingles-with-barbed-wire-trenches-kyiv-park-2023-05-05/ |title=Cherry blossom mingles with barbed wire and trenches in Kyiv park |author= |date=2023-05-05 |website=Reuters |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-09 |quote= |language= }}
Since 2013, she has been working with Reuters. She is the author of illustrations and several book covers, including those of Choven Publishing House.
Exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- 2017 – "The Island C" in Crimean House, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2019 – "The Island C" on Koktebel Jazz Fest 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2020 – the exhibition with the LaVita Palliative Care Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2022 – "New hybrid deportation" in La Chambre, Strasbourg, France
- 2022 – "New Hybrid Deportation" under the auspices of Graph CMI Association, Bram, France
= Group exhibitions =
- 2015 – the exhibition of The Day newspaper photo contest, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2019 – "The Dream About White Socks" on Nikon Photo Contest 2019 exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020 – the exhibition "Human Rights Situation in Crimea" at the Globsec Security Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2022 – "New hybrid deportation" at the First Parliamentary Summit of the Crimean Platform, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2022 – the exhibition at The CinEast Festival, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- 2022 - "New hybrid deportation" on The Fotofestiwal Łodz, Lodz, Poland
- 2022 - the exhibition of La-Presse.org in Leipzig, Germany
- 2022 – the exhibition at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
- 2022 – the screening at Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 2022 – the screening of Georgian and Ukrainian war photography by Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2022 – the exhibition Shoulder To Shoulder: Ukrainian War Photography in public places in Odesa, Ukraine
- 2022 – the screening of female Ukrainian photographers at the Sune Jonsson Centrum for dokumentarfotografi, Umea, Sweden
- 2022 – "The Thin Line" at Safehouse 2 in Peckham, London, UK
- 2022 – the exhibition "The Thin Line" and screening of War Photography in Montpellier, France
- 2022 – "The Thin Line" in Ottensheim, Austria
- 2022 – the screening at The Bayeux Award festival, Bayeux, France
- 2022 – "Focus on Ukraine", Hoorn, The Netherlands
- 2022 – the exhibition at the Estacao Imagem festival, Coimbra, Portugal
- 2022 - “The New Abnormal” at PHOXXI, the temporary House of Photography of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- 2022 – "The Thin Line" at The Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2022 – the exhibition in VEMU Estonian Museum, Toronto, Canada
- 2022 – the exhibition in OKAPI Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
Awards
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