UKRAINE / CYRIL HORISZNY (4 galleries)

Born in 1977, Cyril Horiszny is Franco-Ukrainian. When growing up in Paris' lower-class multi-ethnic districts, he observed the inhabitants and their culture. On obtaining a Master's degree in History at the Sorbonne and completing a summer course at Harvard, in 2001 he returned to the area of his special interest: Eastern Europe and particularly Ukraine, his grand-parents' homeland. This rediscovery of his roots made him look for his own identity. Helped along by his double culture and his...
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Born in 1977, Cyril Horiszny is Franco-Ukrainian. When growing up in Paris' lower-class multi-ethnic districts, he observed the inhabitants and their culture. On obtaining a Master's degree in History at the Sorbonne and completing a summer course at Harvard, in 2001 he returned to the area of his special interest: Eastern Europe and particularly Ukraine, his grand-parents' homeland. This rediscovery of his roots made him look for his own identity. Helped along by his double culture and his knowledge of the place. He has been trying since then, to peer into the soul of a nation, into their national and regional realities. Attracted by the diverse and complex post-Soviet space, the photojournalist has chosen portraiture and the ambience of Eastern Europe as his primary leitmotiv. From Ukraine to Russia, Georgia to Belarus, he has travelled throughout the former Soviet Union practicing his art with a documentary eye. Through his photos and texts he voices the mysterious past and the hard transition of young states under reconstruction. Head of the French Center in Lviv, Ukraine, from 2003 to 2005, Cyril Horiszny has devoted his time to photojournalism since 2006. Horiszny's work has been published internationally in Le Monde, The Financial Times, La Croix, VSD, Elle, among others, and exhibited in Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Barcelona, Toronto, Stockholm, Berlin, and Kyïv. His pictures on the Orange Revolution appeared in the book Even the snow was orange by French journalist Alain Guillemoles in 2005.
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