HOLDERNESS, N.H. – Holderness School is hosting “Verses from a Nation in Transition: Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj” beginning on January 24. Mr. Sywenkyj, a two-time Fulbright scholar and recipient of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, is an American photographer of Ukrainian descent.
He specializes in documentary, reportage, portraiture and travel photography. Twenty years ago, he began working in Ukraine, the nation of his ancestors.
The exhibit at Holderness School features approximately 50 photographs from three of Mr. Sywenkyj’s long-term projects from Ukraine. For two decades, he focused his lens on health issues related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and war trauma.