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Illya BEL (1974) photographer, Kyiv, Ukraine. Member of the Union of Photographic Artists of Ukraine since 2022 Creative education (selected courses): 2012 studying at the FOTO7 photography school: basic and advanced course 2016 master class "Art portrait" by Iryna Jule 2019 master class "Portrait: idea, main character, color" by Olga Pavolga 2019 Course "Contemporary Photography with Oleksandr Lyapin" at the School of Contemporary Art 2020 online course "Modern Photography: History and Development" by Kateryna Radchenko 2021 online course "Storytelling in photography" by Kateryna Radchenko 2023 online courses of Dmytro Bogachuk "Photo projects" and "Contemporary photography" Selected personal exhibitions from 2022: 2024-08 exhibition "Internal contour" at the National Museum Taras Shevchenko (KYIV, UKRAINE) 2024-04 exhibition in GalerieN (Nienburg, Germany) 2024-03 exhibition « Des femmes en temps de guerre et de paix » (Tonnerre, France) 2023-11 exhibition « Ukraine en temps de guerre et de paix : en quête des réponses » (Lézinnes, France) 2023-11 the project "Inner contour" in the art space National Museum of Cosmonautics (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) 2023-10 exhibition of the project "Echoes of identity " in the Cinema House, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2023-08 exhibition of the project "Inner contour" in the art space "Mala Opera", (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2023-02 exhibition of the project "Genocide" before the start of the hot phases of the war on 24/02/2022 in parallel in two art spaces: "Mala Opera" and "Artistic Transition", (Kyiv, Ukraine). 2023-01 exhibition of the "ELEMENTS" project, Museum of Local History, (Obukhov, Ukraine) 2022-11 exhibition "Special View", Museum of Local History, (Boyarka, Ukraine) 2022-08 exhibition of the project "Not your war?" in the Cinema House, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2022-06 exhibition of the project "ELEMENTS" in the gallery "Kyivphotos-Hall" in the art location of the Kyiv Mykola Gogol Library (Kyiv, Ukraine) Selected group exhibitions: 2024-03 Exhibition of Contemporary art " Transformations" gallery HotArtHall (Lviv, Ukraine) 2024-01 Exhibition of modern Ukrainian art "Seeing dreams" in the "Kyiv History Museum" (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2023-12 III International Biennale "Ukrainian Artistic Photography - 2023" at the National Museum Taras Shevchenko (KYIV, UKRAINE) 2023-09 "Experience of reality" at the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine (Kyiv,Ukraine) 2023-05 "WE ARE FROM UKRAINE" Khmelnytskyi Museum-Studio of Photographic Art (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) 2022-10 Exhibition "Artistic Front" HotArtHall (Lviv, Ukraine) 2022-09 Exhibition "Sztuka jako dar" (Warsaw, Poland) 2022-06 INTERFOTO – UKRAINE 2022 international photography biennial (Temisoara, Romania) 2022-02 Exhibition "Thing from Inner Space" at the Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2021-06 Exhibition "Art as Life. Life as Art" at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2020-01 Exhibition "Wonderland" at the Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 2017-06 - exhibition of theater photo artists as part of the International Festival of Chamber Performances Andriyivskyfest, (Kyiv, Ukraine) Awards and mentions: 2024 IPA 2nd PRIZE for the project "Anthology" 2024 Analog Sparks Competition: Honorable Mention for the project "Diary 2021. Moments of life" 2024 PX3 2024 COMPETITION Award: HONORABLE MENTION for "Looking for a way" project, France 2024 TIFA 2023 (Tokyo International Foto Awards) HONORABLE MENTION 2023 ІІІ Open international competition of reportage photography "ART PRESS PHOTO 2023", Ukraine. Award: Diploma of the 3rd degree for a series of theater reports 2023 PX3 2023 COMPETITION Award: HONORABLE MENTION for "Inner limits" project, France 2023 finalist of the SIXTH OPEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Ukraine 2023 special award of the 36th edition mgFoto "world in 2022" photo contest, Poland 2022 finalist of the FIFTH OPEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Ukraine 2020 photo contest THEATER EXPOSED among professionals (first, second, third places in various categories), Ukraine 2018 finalist of the Siena International photo Awards, Italy 2015-2019 participation in contests from "35PHOTO", consistently occupying the top 5%-7%-10% of participants. Currently, my primary media is photography without limitations; in my works, I try to go beyond the framework of the photographic image, connecting space and time as elements of my creativity.