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Mila Teshaieva

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Birthplace:
Kyiv, Ukraine

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Mila Teshaieva is an award winning photographer, artist and a documentary filmmaker.  Since 2004 Mila has been engaged into long-term projects on the territories of former USSR, in particular, she dedicated many years working in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea region. This work has resulted in her first monograph Promising Waters that was published with Kehrer Verlag in 2013, and book “Faces and Stories of Entrepreneurs”, which she was commissioned and published by Swiss Development and Cooperation in 2015. Mila’s work has received multiple distinctions for her work, among them 1st prize in NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2010, Critical Mass Book Award and PDN Photo Annual and appeared on the pages of Courier International, British Journal of Photography, Time Magazine Lightbox, among many others. Her projects were exhibited internationally, with the most recent solo exhibitions in Museum Art of West Coast (Föhr 2016), Haggerty Museum of Art (USA 2015), Blue Sky Gallery (USA 2015) Photoquai Biennial 2015 and are kept in multiple public and private collections.  Mila's two documentary films on the Russian aggression war in Ukraine - When spring came to Bucha (2022) and Shards of Light (2025) - were shown on a number of international film festivals all over the world.

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2022  When Spring Came to Bucha
2025  Shards of Light

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2022  When Spring Came to Bucha
2025  Shards of Light

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