Over the past dozen years, my work has taken me from the remote US Army outposts in Afghanistan to the corporate boardrooms of Manhattan.
My corporate clients include American Express, Martek Biosciences, Juvederm, and Microsoft, and numerous PR and marketing agencies such as Rubenstein PR, Taylor, and Rogers & Cowan.
I have also collaborated with major publications and news agencies including Time, Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and New York Times, and worked on multiple projects around the globe with Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations.
I received my Master of Fine Arts degree with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, and my first degree as a Director of Photography in Motion Picture Imaging in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2000.
My work is included in permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, and my first, award-winning book Inshallah has been published in Germany by Kehrer Verlag in 2015.
I am currently based in San Francisco and available for assignments throughout the world.
Awards:
Schönste Deutsche Bücher (Winner): 2015
Tokyo International Photography Festival (Winner): 2014
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Space Program (Winner): 2013
Magenta Flash Forward - (Winner): 2013
PDN's 30: 2011
Critical Mass - Top 50: 2011
Magenta Foundation (Honorable mention): 2010
PDN Photo Annual (Photojournalism winner): 2010
AI+AP (American Photography + American Illustration): published in 2008–2010 yearbooks
International Photography Awards – Lucie: honorable mention: 2008–2009
PX3 - winner (portraiture): 2010
PX3 - winner (travel) 1st, 2nd and 3rd place: 2008–2009
XVIII Eddie Adams Workshop: 2005
Exhibitions:
Solo
Blue Sky gallery (Portland, OR) “Inshallah": 2015
Davis Orton gallery (Hudson, NY) "Afghanistan", two person show with Andrea Camuto: 2014
Circuit gallery (Toronto, Canada) “Embedded", two person show with Donald Weber: 2014
Pictura gallery (Bloomington, IN) "Inshallah": 2013
Group
Fotofestiwal (Lodz, Poland): 2016
Athens Photo Festival at the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece): 2015
4th Photoquai biennial at the Quai Branly Museum (Paris, France): 2013
Annenberg Space for Photography (Los Angeles, CA) Slideshow Night "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY": 2013
Gelman gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI) “New Contemporaries 2012”: 2012
Sol Koffler gallery (Providence, RI) "Flux Capacity": 2012
Gelman gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI) “From This Point Forward”: 2012
Cohen gallery at Brown University (Providence, RI) "Alternate Terrains: Photography Exhibition": 2012
RING CUBE gallery (Tokyo, Japan) "PDN's 30": 2011
RayKo Photo Center (San Francisco, CA) "Across the Divide": 2011
Pelavin gallery (New York, NY) "A Field Guide To Getting Lost": 2011
Lectures:
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (New York, NY): 2011
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (New York, NY): 2011
Articles & Reviews:
Quill Magazine "We Own the Future of the News": 2012
Photo District News: "Our Choice of 30 Photographers to Watch": 2011
The New York Times LENS Blog "In Afghanistan, a Personal Perspective": 2010
Slideluck Potshow "Interview with Dima Gavrysh": 2009
Popular Photography: "Holi Festival by Dima Gavrysh": 2009