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Ukrainian photographer

Rita Ostrovskaya (Ukrainian: Рита Островська; born 1953) is a Ukrainian photographer, living in Kassel, Germany. Her work has contributed to the preservation of traces of Jewish culture in Ukraine. Ostrovskaya's work is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Work

Ostrovskaya was born in Kyiv. She studied cinematography and journalism in Leningrad.

Her large-scale project Jews in the Ukraine contains a series of photographs of typical Jewish towns—shtetl—in Ukraine, and the lives of Jews living in them. It was made between 1989 and 2001, beginning with Shargorod, at a time of significant change. Her accompanying text describes Jewish customs and cultural rituals that were being practiced.

Since 2001, she has been living and working in Kassel, Germany. She is also a ceramicist.

Publications

  • Jews in the Ukraine. With photographs and accompanying text by Ostrovskaya.

Collections

Ostrovskaya's work is held in the following permanent collection:

Awards

References

  1. "Фотограф Рита Островская". Музей Российской Фотографии. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ^ "4 Ukrainian women in "World history of women-photographers"". The Odessa Journal. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. Lebart, Luce; Robert, Marie (2020). Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes. Paris: Textuel. ISBN 978-2-84597-843-0.
  4. ^ "Ostrovskaya, Rita". SFMOMA. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Чорно-біла сучасність єврейських містечок в Україні - DW - 27.01.2012". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Rita Ostrovskaya | Fotografie | Hatje Cantz Verlag". Hatjecantz.de. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

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