photo by Oleksandra Zborovska
Yuliana Paranko is a photographer and artist from Ukraine. She obtained an MA in Journalism from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine in 2013. She has lived and worked in Zhytomyr and Kyiv, Ukraine, and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
In 2019, she completed a Portrait Photography course at Bird in Flight School. She graduated an ‘Art Consciousness’ course at MYPH school in 2023.
Yuliana is a member of Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization (UWPO) and MYPH collective.
Yuliana is interested in the relationship between nature and humans, nature's role in art, and human and women's rights. She primarily works with analogue techniques, but occasionally uses digital methods. She also uses experimental techniques in film photography, as well as instax and cameraless photography.
Selected exhibition history:
2025 – "Experimental portraits" exhibition during Monat der Fotographie-OFF at Stattlab (Berlin, Germany)
2024 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “100 women” (Remscheid, Germany)
2024 – The SE Center for Photography "Alternative Processes"
2024 – “Nature exposed” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2024 – Where Flowers Bloom exhibition (Locarno, Switzerland)
2024 – “Analog” group exhibition at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (online)
2024 – Shutterhub Yearbook awards exhibition (online)
2024 – project screening at NOVA24 | Photo + Film Festival (Detroit, USA)
2024 – project screening at Revela't Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
2024 – “Blurred visions” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2024 – "Shared Body" MYPH group exhibition at Ukraine House (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2024 – [PEP] Photographic Explorations group show at 254Forest at Photo Brussels Festival 2024
2024 – “Creative photography” online exhibition at ARTDOC Photography magazine
2023 – Online group exhibition "Film friends” at Analog Forever Magazine
2023 – Group exhibition at “Film speed lab” (Berlin, Germany)
2023 – “Healing nature” online exhibition at ARTDOC Photography magazine
2023 – “Crossing the line” MYPH group exhibition at Norfolk Arts Center (Norfolk NE, USA)
2023 – MYPH group exhibition at Motanka festival (Berlin, Germany)
2022 – MYPH exhibition and book presentation (PHOXXI, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany)
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition at Vilnius Art fair
2022 – “Crossing the line” MYPH group exhibition at Walker gallery (Kearney, NE, USA)
2022 – Online MYPH Students exhibition at Kantart gallery
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “In the name of freedom 2.0” (Potsdam, Germany)
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “In the name of freedom” (Berlin, Germany)
2021 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2021 – “Environmental Alterations” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2021 – “Contrasts” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2021 – online group exhibition - "I Used To Travel” at Analog Forever Magazine
2020 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s online group exhibition at Photo Kyiv
2020 – online group exhibition “Home museum” at LagosPhoto Festival
2020 – online group exhibition “Abstractions” curated by LoosenArt
2011 – an exhibition with Ketevan Kantaria during Her100ry Women’s Festival (Lviv, Ukraine)
2024 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “100 women” (Remscheid, Germany)
2024 – The SE Center for Photography "Alternative Processes"
2024 – “Nature exposed” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2024 – Where Flowers Bloom exhibition (Locarno, Switzerland)
2024 – “Analog” group exhibition at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (online)
2024 – Shutterhub Yearbook awards exhibition (online)
2024 – project screening at NOVA24 | Photo + Film Festival (Detroit, USA)
2024 – project screening at Revela't Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
2024 – “Blurred visions” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2024 – "Shared Body" MYPH group exhibition at Ukraine House (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2024 – [PEP] Photographic Explorations group show at 254Forest at Photo Brussels Festival 2024
2024 – “Creative photography” online exhibition at ARTDOC Photography magazine
2023 – Online group exhibition "Film friends” at Analog Forever Magazine
2023 – Group exhibition at “Film speed lab” (Berlin, Germany)
2023 – “Healing nature” online exhibition at ARTDOC Photography magazine
2023 – “Crossing the line” MYPH group exhibition at Norfolk Arts Center (Norfolk NE, USA)
2023 – MYPH group exhibition at Motanka festival (Berlin, Germany)
2022 – MYPH exhibition and book presentation (PHOXXI, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany)
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition at Vilnius Art fair
2022 – “Crossing the line” MYPH group exhibition at Walker gallery (Kearney, NE, USA)
2022 – Online MYPH Students exhibition at Kantart gallery
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “In the name of freedom 2.0” (Potsdam, Germany)
2022 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition “In the name of freedom” (Berlin, Germany)
2021 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s group exhibition (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2021 – “Environmental Alterations” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2021 – “Contrasts” group exhibition by LoosenArt (Rome, Italy)
2021 – online group exhibition - "I Used To Travel” at Analog Forever Magazine
2020 – Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization’s online group exhibition at Photo Kyiv
2020 – online group exhibition “Home museum” at LagosPhoto Festival
2020 – online group exhibition “Abstractions” curated by LoosenArt
2011 – an exhibition with Ketevan Kantaria during Her100ry Women’s Festival (Lviv, Ukraine)
Publications:
2024 – Der Greif Guest Room: The Sustainable Darkroom & Tamsin Green (online)
2024 – Where flowers bloom volume 6
2024 – float magazine
2024 – Der Greif Guest Room: Michael Famighetti (online)
2024 – Journal of Urban Photography (online)
2024 – Conceptual photography book by Creative Publishing & MYPH
2024 – ARTDOC Photography magazine “Creative photography” issue 1 (online)
2024 – “Women’s body” project at Zaborona (online)
2023 – ARTDOC Photography magazine “Healing nature” issue 5 (online)
2022 – Mykolaiv Young Photography book by Rodovid publishing
2022 – UWPO at Divoche Media (online)
2021 – Book covers (2 filmswap works with Alina Pleska) for “Letters of insurgents” by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vocheck
2020 – Photo illustrations for art-book “Rusla Zapyast” by Olha Olhova
2020 – Ukraine's surrogate mothers struggle under quarantine, OpenDemocracy (online)
2020 – Documentary projects of the course “Portrait”, Bird in Flight Magazine (online)
2020 – Polysème Magazine #4 - Sexualities, France
2019 – “Egg donation in Ukraine: conditions, abuses and dangers”, Politychna Krytyka (online)
2019 – “Reproductive labor hidden by the discourse of altruism: egg donation and surrogacy", Politychna Krytyka, Ukraine (online)
2019 – “Your best photos of the week, July 26, 2019”, National Geographic (online)
2015-2016 – news websites Vgolos.zt, Zhitomir.today (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) during work as a journalist
2014-2016 – Campaign against sexism in media and politics Povaha (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2009-2014 – Social magazine “Prosto Neba” (Lviv, Ukraine)
2024 – Where flowers bloom volume 6
2024 – float magazine
2024 – Der Greif Guest Room: Michael Famighetti (online)
2024 – Journal of Urban Photography (online)
2024 – Conceptual photography book by Creative Publishing & MYPH
2024 – ARTDOC Photography magazine “Creative photography” issue 1 (online)
2024 – “Women’s body” project at Zaborona (online)
2023 – ARTDOC Photography magazine “Healing nature” issue 5 (online)
2022 – Mykolaiv Young Photography book by Rodovid publishing
2022 – UWPO at Divoche Media (online)
2021 – Book covers (2 filmswap works with Alina Pleska) for “Letters of insurgents” by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vocheck
2020 – Photo illustrations for art-book “Rusla Zapyast” by Olha Olhova
2020 – Ukraine's surrogate mothers struggle under quarantine, OpenDemocracy (online)
2020 – Documentary projects of the course “Portrait”, Bird in Flight Magazine (online)
2020 – Polysème Magazine #4 - Sexualities, France
2019 – “Egg donation in Ukraine: conditions, abuses and dangers”, Politychna Krytyka (online)
2019 – “Reproductive labor hidden by the discourse of altruism: egg donation and surrogacy", Politychna Krytyka, Ukraine (online)
2019 – “Your best photos of the week, July 26, 2019”, National Geographic (online)
2015-2016 – news websites Vgolos.zt, Zhitomir.today (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) during work as a journalist
2014-2016 – Campaign against sexism in media and politics Povaha (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2009-2014 – Social magazine “Prosto Neba” (Lviv, Ukraine)
Awards:
2024 – Longlist of MYPH art prize
2023 – Honorable Mention at the Analog Sparks 2023 competition
2019 – Finalist of Ptakhoplastyk by TvorchShid with photos from “Lives of garbage” project. Photos were shown at 9 cities in Ukraine during TvorchShid Tour
2023 – Honorable Mention at the Analog Sparks 2023 competition
2019 – Finalist of Ptakhoplastyk by TvorchShid with photos from “Lives of garbage” project. Photos were shown at 9 cities in Ukraine during TvorchShid Tour
Festivals:
2024 – Participant at EXP. 20 International Festival on Experimental Photography (Barcelona, Spain)
2020 – Participant at EXP. 20 International Festival on Experimental Photography (Barcelona, Spain)
2019 – Participant at 2nd Kyiv Photo Book International Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2020 – Participant at EXP. 20 International Festival on Experimental Photography (Barcelona, Spain)
2019 – Participant at 2nd Kyiv Photo Book International Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
ARTIST TALKS & WORKSHOPS:
2025 – Cyanotype workshops at Stattlab during EMOP Photo lab days (Berlin, Germany)
2022 – Artist talk at For Fuchs' Sake (Berlin, Germany)
2022 – Artist talk at For Fuchs' Sake (Berlin, Germany)
Memberships & Networks:
Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization, MYPH collective, Stattlab