Ihor Haidai

Ihor Mykolaiovych Haidai (Ukrainian: Ігор Миколайович Гайдай born January 22, 1961, in Kharkiv[1][2]) is a Ukrainian photo artist and one of the initiators of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine.[3]

Ihor Haidai
Ігор Гайдай
Born (1961-01-22) January 22, 1961
Alma materKyiv I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theater Institute
Websitephotogaidai.com

Biography

In 1985, he graduated from the Kyiv I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theater Institute with a degree in cinematography. Igor Gaidai's graduation work was the short film "Dragon" (based on the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury), which won an award at the Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist" (1984).[1][2][3][4][5]

He worked as a teacher of photo composition and lighting at the Department of Film Directing at the Kyiv I. К. Karpenko-Kary Institute (1984-1986), and as a photographer at the Dovzhenko Film Studios (1987—1991). Until 2002, he worked with many advertising agencies.[1][2][3]

In May 2023, a unique photograph by Ihor Haidai, "Soldiers of the Azov Regiment. Mariupol" was sold for $12,500 at a charity auction at the National Center Ukrainian House.[6]

Creativity

In 1991 he founded his own photo studio. Since 1995, he has been the founder, co-owner and art director of Gaidai Studio LLC.[1][2][3][7]

He has written the photo books "Ukrainians: The beginning of the third millennium" (2003).,[8] "9 months + 3 days" (2008), "Razom.ua" (2011)[1][2][3][9]

Solo exhibitions have occurred in Heinsberg (1991), Toulouse (1993, 2008), Kyiv (1994, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019), Leipzig (1996), Wrocław (2004), Geneva (2005), Vienna (2006, 2009), Donetsk (2008), Dnipropetrovs'k (2008), Lviv (2009, 2011, 2014), Minsk (2009), Arles (2010, 2011), Paris (2010, 2013), London (2011, 2014), Metz (2011, 2013), Angers (2011), Moscow (2013), Berlin (2014),[10] Pärnu (2014), New York (2014), Zaporizhzhia (2014), Chernivtsi (2014), Chernihiv (2014), Ivano-Frankivsk (2015), Hofburg (2015), Innsbruck (2015, 2020), Grunewald (2015), Frankfurt/Oder (2015), Odesa (2021), Kutaisi (2022), Strasbourg (2022).[3]

References

External video
video icon Ігор Гайдай в студії Громадського on YouTube, hromadske, 16.03.2014.
video icon Ігор Гайдай: Фотографія може зупинити час on YouTube, 24 канал, 01.07.2021.
video icon Життєві історії. Ігор Гайдай — фотограф on YouTube, Київ24, 10.05.2015.
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