BIO

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Olga Ingurazova is a Russian-born photographer, international journalist and educator.

She began her carrier documenting post-conflict recovery and the aftermath of separatist movements and national wars. In 2015 Olga was named to the shortlist of ”30 under 30” emerging talents by Magnum Photos and was listed as one of Photo Boite’s “30 under 30 women photographers” to watch.

Today Ingurazova combines documentary and art approaches to produce personal and editorial visual projects. As well she collaborates on cultural and educational events worldwide as a photographer, producer and cultural enterpreneur. She mixes artistic insider’s perspective and the distance of a journalistic observer. (See full RESUME)

Ingurazova was awarded and supported by the Lucie Foundation Award, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Prize, Aftermath Project Foundation, Invisible Photographer Asia Scholarship, IAFOR Documentary Award, International photography Direct Look Award.

She has been internationally published (Smithsonian magazine, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, Io Donna, Courier international, The Washington Post) and exhibited (Les Rencontres d’Arles, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Latvian Museum of Photography, Festival Pil’Ours, Palm Springs Photo Festival, International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa among others).

Olga is a member of International Federation of Journalists, Russian Union of Journalists and Women Photograph Foundation. She studied photojournalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University and broadcast media at the High School of Film and Television Ostankino.

BACKGROUND

Trained in the field of journalism Olga became a post-war photographer and used her visual researches to act in processes of post-conflict recovery. Ingurazova provided the coverage in the international media, held campus activities and trained local mass media stuff.

For years she was documenting disputed regions in the Post-Soviet world and the Caucasus and participated in cultural and dialogue programs in Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Moldavia and Ukraine to change the relationships on the ground. She teamed up with locals organizers for cultural events helping repatriates families from war-torn Syria, returned to the ethnic motherland, to assimilate in the South Caucasus. Worked in the back of the violence preventions between muslim and christian residents around Serbian enclaves in Kosovo.

Olga’s award-winning photo stories ”Scars of Independence” and ”Wolf Story” were published as a part of a book series "War Is Only Half the Story" produced by the Aftermath Project Foundation and Dewi Lewis Publishing. In 2016 the Guardian selected Ingurazova as one of the ”ten best photographers documenting post-Soviet and East Europe”.

Being sports enthusiast and football fan, she covered four Mundials (FIFA World Cups in South Africa 2010, in Brazil 2014, in Russia 2018 and CONIFA Football Games 2016 in Abkhazia), CONIFA Euro Cup 2019, Winter Olympics 2014 in Russia and 2012 UEFA European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.

Her work is focused on sports diplomacy that gather communities and nations. Ingurazova brought up stories of 'alternative' national football teams of Somalia, Lapland, Cyprus, North Italy, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ossetia, Panjab and others following the football tournaments for de-facto nations, unrecognized countries and sports isolated territories around the world.