Svet Jacqueline is a documentary photographer raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. As a child adopted from Kirov, Russia, at a young age, her work focuses on the impact of trauma and displacement experienced by families and young adults in conflict zones. She has participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Missouri Photo Workshop, and the VII Foundry workshop. She is a photo essayist in the books, Relentless Courage: Ukraine And The World At War, and Ukraine: A War Crime, published by Fotoevidence. She was awarded the 2026 Lucie Scholarship, shortlisted for the Mary Stafford reportage grant, received the Yunghi Grant in 2022, and was recently awarded the Global Focus award at Xposure. Recent solo exhibitions were at the Leica Gallery, Boston, the American Center for Photography, and Xposure in Sharjah, Dubai. She lives in Kyiv, working with The Wall Street Journal and Leica Camera, and is represented by Zuma Press.
The people of Ukraine, exhausted, displaced, and grieving, embrace calmness and fortitude, even as they face some of the darkest days of the war.
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