Photographer, filmmaker, designer and visual story teller

I am a Kyiv born, New York City-based photographer and filmmaker. 

Over the past year, my work has focused on recording the impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on the Ukrainian diaspora in New York and their response to it.

A decades-long pursuit of street-photography with a cinema verite-inspired aesthetic has aided me in documenting spontaneous moments that, I sincerely hope, are not only a uniquely timely record of community resilience but also of my own presence in it. To take a quote from Nan Goldin “...creating a history, by recording a history”.

zagdansky@gmail.com
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