CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF)
1980 Born in Albany, New York, USA
Currently lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Co-founder of Prime Collective
SOLO SHOWS
2021 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Blanden Art Museum / Fort Dodge, IA, USA
2021 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Hawkeye Community College / Waterloo, IA, USA
2020 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Iowa Central Community College / Fort Dodge, IA, USA
2019 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Shelter+ / Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2019 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art / Chicago, IL, USA (catalog)
2019 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Chech Art Gallery / Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2019 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Zaporizhzhia National University / Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2019 “Like Dew in the Sun” - Institute of International Education / Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv / Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Sumy City Gallery / Sumy, Ukraine
2018 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Platforma TU / Mariupol, Ukraine
2017 “Uncertainty” - outdoor exhibition commissioned by ICRC / Vienna and various cities in Ukraine
2016 “Uncertainty” - outdoor exhibition commissioned by ICRC / Kyiv and Severodonetsk, Ukraine
2016 “Donbass, Ukraine” - Visa Pour l’Image / Perpignan, France (projection)
2016 “The Beating of the Heart” - America House / Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” - Angkor Photo Festival / Siem Reap, Cambodia (projection)
2014 “Euromaidan” - Singapore International Photography Festival
2014 “Euromaidan” - Zoom Photo Festival / Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
GROUP SHOWS
2023 “Ukraine: A War Crime” - Seinäjoki Museum / Seinäjoki, Finland
2023 “Ukraine: War and Resistance” - Mill City Museum / Minneapolis, MN, USA
2023 “Ukraine: War and Resistance” - Art Space in Exile / Berlin, Germany
2023 “Ukraine: War and Resistance” - Great Highway Park / San Francisco, CA, USA
2023 “Ukraine: War and Resistance” - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church / Minneapolis, MN, USA
2023 “Ukraine: War and Resistance” - Centre for East European and International Studies / Berlin, Germany
2023 “Bearing Witness: Photographs from Ukraine” - University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia, PA, USA
2022 “No Such Thing as an Innocent Eye” - Lescer Art Center / Zalesie Gorne, Poland
2022 “The Sky Is Blue but the Sun Isn’t Shining” - CinEast Film Festival / Luxembourg
2022 “Capturing Conflict” - Sidley Austin Law Firm / London, UK
2022 “War in Ukraine” - Museum of Vinnytsia / Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2022 “Ukraine: Testify So You Will Not Forget” - Zoom Photo Festival / Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
2022 “URGENCY!: Ukraine” - Bronx Documentary Center / Bronx, NY, USA
2022 “Ukraine Under Attack” - Photoville / Brooklyn, NY, USA (curated by The New York Times)
2021 “Eyes on Main Street” - Wilson, NC, USA
2020 “Re-Generation” - Re-Fest by CultureHub / New York, NY, USA
2020 “Earth Shot” - Harvey Milk Photo Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 “Earth Shot” - Photo Month / Sacramento, CA, USA
2019 “MISSING” - Géopolis / Brussels, Belgium
2019 “Benefit Art Auction” - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts / Omaha, NE, USA
2018 “USA-UA Identification” - America House / Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 “Benefit Art Auction” - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts / Omaha, NE, USA
2017 “Unfolding Truth” - The University of Mississippi / Oxford, MS, USA
2017 “.RAW” - Dukat Gallery / Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “.RAW” - Ukrainian Museum / New York, NY, USA
2017 “2nd Juried PhotoBook Exhibition” - Vermont Center for Photography / Brattleboro, VT, USA
2017 “10x10 AWAKE Reading Room” - Massachusetts College of Art & Design / Boston, MA, USA
2017 “10x10 AWAKE Reading Room” - Image Text Ithaca Symposium, Cornell University / Ithaca, NY, USA
2017 “10x10 AWAKE Reading Room” - Magnum Foundation / New York, NY, USA
2017 “10x10 AWAKE Reading Room” - PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2017 “The Photobook Exhibition” - Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum / Athens, Greece
2015 “#FutureofCities” - Somerset House / London, UK
2015 “Year in Focus” - Getty Images Gallery / London, UK
2014 “Of Midwest, By Midwest” - Overture Center for the Arts / Madison, WI, USA
2014 “The Everyday Projects” - Photoville / New York, NY, USA
2014 “Appetite: The Culture of Food” - Air Circulation / Brooklyn, NY, USA
2014 “Euromaidan: The True Story” - Checkpoint Charlie Museum / Berlin, Germany
2014 “Shift” - Third Floor Gallery / Cardiff, Wales
2014 “Home” - Islander Art Gallery, Oso Bay Biennial XVIII / Corpus Christi, TX, USA
2014 “Euromaidan: The True Story” - 8 Bit Gallery / Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Liberty & Justice (For All)” - VII Gallery / Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012 “Liberty & Justice (For All)” - Fovea Exhibits / Beacon, NY, USA
2011 “Prime Show” - Random Row Books / Charlottesville, VA, USA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Pictures of the Year International (POYi), Award of Excellence, Science & Natural History Picture Story
2019 Magnum Foundation Fund Grant Recipient
2018 Philip Jones Griffiths Award Winner
2018 Fulbright Scholar (2018-19), Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2017 Yunghi Grant Winner
2017 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2017 South Asian Journalists Association, Reporting Fellow
2017 TheDocumentaryProjectFund, Established Artist Grant Winner
2016 Alexia Foundation, Professional Grant Finalist
2016 Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Shortlist, Current Affairs
2015 Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward 2015 Winner
2015 Kathryn Davis Fellow, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2015 National Press Photographers Association, Short Grant Winner
2015 NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Honorable Mention, International News Photo
2015 Getty Images European Editorial Awards, Photo Essay of the Year & News Picture of the Year
2014 White House News Photographers Association, 1st Place International News Single
2014 Photolucida, Critical Mass Finalist
2013 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, reporting grant recipient
2013 Pictures of the Year International (POYi), Award of Excellence, Campaign 2012
2013 American Photography 29, Chosen for The Archive
2011 Dart Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Trauma (with Boston Globe)
2008 David Alan Harvey Emerging Photographers Fund (grant finalist)
PUBLICATIONS
2019 “Brotherland: War in Ukraine” Exhibition Catalog, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2018 “Ukraine in a Time of War” Newspaper, self-published
2017 “Great Old Days” Zine, Overlapse
PRESS
Sophie Schmäing, “Tragedy and Normalcy: Documenting Russia’s War on Ukraine – An Interview with Photographer Brendan Hoffman,” Blog for Transregional Research, August 8, 2023. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/48208
Sophie Tiedemann, “Bilder vom Krieg #12,” Dekoder, July 29, 2023. https://www.dekoder.org/de/article/fotografie-ukraine-krieg-brendan-hoffman
Kimberly J. Soenen, “Empathy and Responsibility in Journalism | An Interview with Brendan Hoffman,” The Fine Print, April 23, 2023. https://somepeopleeverybody.substack.com/p/i-dont-always-have-the-answers
Dmitry Kostyukov, “Brendan Hoffman: ‘Competition between photographers often turns into a contest - who can get closer to the weeping widow,’” Bird in Flight, December 14, 2022. https://birdinflight.com/svit/20221212-brendan-hoffman-interwiev.html
Melody Parker, “Ukraine War Photographer’s Work Finds Temporary Quarters at Hawkeye Community College,” Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, April 19, 2022. https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/ukraine-war- photographers-work-finds-temporary-quarters-at-hawkeye-community-college/article_cbeacc59- a676-5ffa-b68e-159874e07130.html
Adam Ferguson, “A Photographer Forced to Flee A War at Home,” Adam Ferguson Substack, March 29, 2022. https://adamferguson.substack.com/p/a-photographer-forced-to-flee-a-war
Lester Holt, “Meet the Photojournalists Behind the Powerful Images of War in Ukraine,” NBC Nightly News, March 10, 2022. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/meet-the-photojournalists-behind-the-powerful-images-of-war-in-ukraine-134993477908
Konstantin Valkov, “Brendan Hoffman, Documentary Photographer,” Darik Week, February 12, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8NadEWNUQ
Sara Piccini, “The Other Side of the Lens,” William & Mary Alumni Magazine, Winter 2022.
https://magazine.wm.edu/issue/2022-winter/the-other-side-of-the-lens.php
“Voices of EuroMaidan: Through the Lens of a Foreign Photographer,” Kyiv Post, February 18, 2021. https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/video/voices-of-euromaidan-through-the-lens-of-a-foreign-photographer
Pierre Marchenko, “Brendan Hoffman: Ukraine Seen by an American Photographer,” Ukraine Through the Lens, UATV, July 25, 2019. https://youtu.be/l8dUt9iLjO0
Vladislav Novikov, “Brendan Hoffman – Photographer,” Friday Evening, First City TV, June 28, 2019. https://youtu.be/_-UaFAEfDcQ
Chava Krivchenia, “Picturing War,” F Newsmagazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, June 6, 2019.
http://fnewsmagazine.com/2019/06/picturing-war/#
Jerome McDonnell and Nari Safavi, “Weekend Passport: Documenting a Warzone in Eastern Ukraine,” WBEZ Chicago, May 24, 2019. https://www.wbez.org/shows/worldview/weekend-passport-documenting-a-warzone-in-eastern-ukraine/8e5b553a-8dd9-48ba-bb7b-7eb8ce9d4f20
Marc Vitali, “‘Brotherland’ Photographer Documents Conflict, Life in Ukraine,” WTTW Chicago Tonight, April 16, 2019. https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/16/brotherland-photographer-documents-conflict-life-ukraine
Tom Wawzenek, “Review: Brendan Hoffman Captures the Daily Life of War in the Ukraine at UIMA,” Third Coast Review, April 9, 2019. https://thirdcoastreview.com/2019/04/09/review-brendan-hoffman-captures-the-daily-life-of-war-in-the-ukraine-at-uima/
“Facts of the Week,” ICTV, February 24, 2019. https://youtu.be/eFtLorJ2uC8?t=1091
“In Ivano-Frankivsk an American Photographer Showed the Current War on Both Sides,”Hold the Course, February 24, 2019. https://kurs.if.ua/news/u_frankivsku_amerykanskyy_fotograf_pokazav_teperishnyu_viynu_po_obydva_boky_linii_rozmezhuvannya_foto_73168.html
Daria Kasianova, “An International Competition of Documentary Photography was Won with a Project About Ukraine,” Bird in Flight, November 22, 2018. https://birdinflight.com/ru/novosti/20181121-pjg-award-ukraine.html
Viktoria Savitskaya, “This American Photographer Wants the World to Not Forget What’s Happening in Donbass,” News of Donbass, June 30, 2018. http://novosti.dn.ua/article/7070-ehtot-amerykanskyy-fotograf-khochet-chtoby-myr-ne-zabyl-o-proyskhodyashhem-na-donbasse
Aline Smithson, “Brendan Hoffman: Webster City,” Lenscratch, August 29, 2017. http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/brendan-hoffman-webster-city/
Jim Casper, “Great Old Days: Interview with Photographer Brendan Hoffman,” LensCulture, February 17, 2017. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/brendan-hoffman-great-old-days
Olivier Laurent, “Bringing Rust-Belt Stories to Donald Trump’s Inauguration,” TIME.com, January 18, 2017. http://time.com/4630774/webster-city/
Paden Vaughan, “Why I’ll Be Handing Out A Free Zine At Trump’s Inauguration,” HUCK, January 17, 2017. http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/activism-2/ill-handing-free-zine-trumps-inauguration/
“Brendan Hoffman: Covering Conflict,” Kathryn Davis Fellows for Peace, November 1, 2016. http://www.davisfellowsforpeace.org/alumni/brendan-hoffman/node/566
James Estrin, “After Factory Closing, Iowans Live Realities of Global Economy,” The New York Times Lens, January 28, 2016. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/iowa-brendan-hoffman-factory-electrolux/
Martha Kearney, “Photographers Behind the Images of 2014,” BBC Radio 4 World at One, January 2, 2015. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g6whs
Jim Powell, “The 20 Photographs of the Year,” The Guardian, December 27, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/dec/27/the-20-photographs-of-the-year
Olivier Laurent, “29 Instagrams that Defined the World in 2014,” TIME Lightbox, December 16, 2014.
http://time.com/3633777/29-instagrams-that-defined-the-world-in-2014/
Anton Ivanov, “Surveillance Cameras,” Esquire Ukraine, December 2014.
“What Remains of Donetsk,” Newsweek.com, August 27, 2014. http://www.newsweek.com/photo-essay-what-remains-donetsk-267225
“A Photographer’s Chaotic Path Toward Realising His Dream,” HUCK 46: Documentary Photography Special II, September 2014. https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/brendan-hoffman/
Francesca Trianni, "Malaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash Site: Eyewitness Accounts of Tragedy," TIME.com, July 24, 2014. http://time.com/3028452/mh17-eyewitness-accounts-of-horror-and-confusion-at-crash-site/
Scott Adam, "The crash site of flight MH17: first hand account," BBC Radio 4, July 18, 2014.
https://audioboo.fm/boos/2335461-the-crash-site-of-flight-mh17-first-hand-account
Oksana Parafeniuk, “Inspiration: Brendan Hoffman,” Bird in Flight, July 9, 2014. http://bird.depositphotos.com/inspiration/experience/brendan-hoffman-i-was-at-risk-of-being-kidnapped.html
Mia Tramz, “#LightboxFF: Brendan Hoffman in Eastern Ukraine,” TIME Lightbox, May 29, 2014.
https://time.com/3809632/lightbox-follow-friday-brendan-hoffman/
Victoria Scoffier, “Personne n’Avait Imagé Cette Violence,” 6MOIS, April 25, 2014.
http://www.6mois.fr/Personne-n-avait-imagine-cette?lang=fr
Leah Latella, “Instagramming Ukraine's Revolution,” Newsweek, February 24, 2014.
http://www.newsweek.com/instagramming-revolution-230020
Jakob Schiller, “Go on the Front Lines of Ukraine's Violent Protests,” WIRED Raw File, February 21, 2014.
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/visual-report-front-lines-protests-kiev/
Olivier Laurent, “Behind Kiev's Barricades, Against the Odds,” British Journal of Photography, January 31, 2014.
http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/01/behind-kievs-barricades-against-the-odds/
Vaughn Wallace, “Watching the Protests in Kiev: One Photographer's Perspective,” Al Jazeera America, January 28, 2014. http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2014/1/watching-the-protestsinkievonephotographersperspective.html
Logan Mock-Bunting, “Spotlight on Brendan Hoffman,” The Image Deconstructed, December 30, 2012. http://www.imagedeconstructed.com/post/spotlight-on-brendan-hoffman
Jakob Schiller, “Gorgeous Photos from the Front Lines of Outsourcing,” WIRED Raw File, October 31, 2012. http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/brendan-hoffman-webster-city/
Clint Alwahab, “Middle-Class America Searches for New Identity,” CNN, October 13, 2012. http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/13/middle-class-america-searches-for-new-identity/
Lauren Margolis, “Photos of What It Looks Like To Be a Democrat,” PhotoShelter, September 25, 2012. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/09/photos-of-what-it-looks-like-to-be-a-democrat/
CLIENTS
National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg Businessweek, Getty Images, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New Yorker, GEO Germany, Le Monde, Stern, The Wall Street Journal, AARP, Mercy Corps, ICRC, ACDI/VOCA, Project HOPE, USAID, TB Alliance, Shell, Philips, Microsoft, Otis
LECTURES
2022 Panelist, “Presidential Conversation: Democracy and the Media,” College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
2022 TPS Presents: Brendan Hoffman, The Photo Society (online event)
2021 “Blanden Art Talks: Brendan Hoffman,” Blanden Art Museum, Ft. Dodge, IA, USA
2021 Artist talk, Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, IA, USA
2020 Lecture, Iowa Newspaper Association Convention / Des Moines, IA, USA
2020 Artist talk, Iowa Central Community College / Fort Dodge, IA, USA
2019 Artist talk, Shelter+ / Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2019 Artist talk, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art / Chicago, IL, USA
2019 Master class, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv / Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Visitor lecture, Bird in Flight Photo School / Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Artist talk, Zaporizhzhia National University / Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2019 Artist talk, Chech Gallery / Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2018 Artist talk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv / Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Visitor lecture, Donetsk National University / Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2018 Artist talk, Sumy City Gallery / Sumy, Ukraine
2018 Artist talk, Platforma TU / Mariupol, Ukraine
2017 Artist talk, .RAW Book Launch / Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Artist talk, “Great Old Days,” Directed Actions: Live Film Series / Washington, DC, USA
2016 Panelist, “The Power of Words: Media Responsibilities and Challenges” hosted by VoxUkraine / Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Artist talk, Boreal Bash III / Toronto, Canada
2014 Artist talk, Uglich Photo Festival / Uglich, Russia
2014 Panelist, “Urban Legacies, Rural Traditions,” DC Environmental Film Festival / Washington, DC, USA
2011 Panelist, “Flickr'd, Tumbl'd, Blogged and Broadcast: The (ongoing) creation and reception of Presidential imagery” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference / St. Louis, MO, USA
EDUCATION
2002 Bachelor of Arts (Art & Art History), College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA