The Battle of Kiev
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Photographer
sandro
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Date of Photograph
february
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Technical Info
digital photography
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Website
This series of images is taken from a larger work began in February 2014 in Kiev and is still ongoing. For this selection I chose the images of the Battle of Kiev. Maidan and Gruschevsko were the main theaters of this battle, which resulted in about 100 deaths and the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych
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Biography
Sandro Maddalena was born in the province of Naples, Italy, the 12th of February 1984. In 2010 he graduated in Photojournalism at the Academy of fine Arts of Naples. In 2009 he executed his first reportage about the collection of garbage in Cairo, thanks to which, he was finalist in the italian contest "National Prize of Arts" (2010) and the international contest "Click about it" (2012). In 2013 he is the youngest photographer of the group that presents an project in Cologne about the last fifty years of social photography in Naples, with a work about mental institution. In 2014 he was finalist in the international contest " Freelens Award for Young Photojournalism" and he was one of the winners of the international contest "Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year". In the same year he was "Editorial Photographer of the Year" in the competition "International Photographey Awards" and the overall winner in the national contest "Nikon Talents". His photographs have been published in Italian and international magazines and newspaper, exhibited in Italy, Germany and England. Actually he is working on a long-term project on the Ukrainian crisis.
