Biography

Emine Ziyatdin is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar visual artist, documentary photographer and researcher. She was born in Uzbekistan, where her family was deported by the Soviet regime along with the entire population of Crimean Tatars in 1944. In 1990, her family returned to Crimea.Her work explores themes of home, belonging, and collective memory through both visual and research-based approaches. She holds an MA in Sociology from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and an MA in Photojournalism from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Fellowship. Emine’s work has been exhibited in Ukraine and internationally.

Previous Education

Ohio University Photojournalism 2012
Ivan Franko University of Lviv Sociology 2009