Barber shop in Maramba, township of Livingstone, Zambia, 2016. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Pickers remove unripe or overripe coffee beans and foreign debris from their daily harvest to prepare it for weighing at the Mubuyu Farm, Zambia, 2016. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
A shepherd rides a horse in the mountains near Khinalug village, Azerbaijan, 2016. Khinalug is the highest, most remote and isolated village in Azerbaijan. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Afghanistan, Kabul, 2014-10-29. Zabulon Simantov, the last Jew in Afghanistan, decided to stay in the country despite the Taliban’s seizure of power in 2021. He will continue to look after his synagogue. In the photo, Zabulon Simantov prepares a chicken for dinner in his kitchen in Kabul. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Afghanistan, Kabul, 2014-10-22. An Afghan man poses in the hall of the ruined Darul Aman Palace. The palace was built in the early 1920s for King Amanullah Khan. Heavy shelling by the Mujahideen after the end of the Soviet invasion left the building a gutted ruin. It was attacked by the Taliban again in 2012. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Gypsy, a young artist, poses nude in a room turned into an art installation in his apartment in the suburb of Shanghai. Shanghai, China, 2018. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Portrait of a brother and sister with albinism. The family lives in a Ukrainian village. Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, 2018. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
A resident of Moryntsi village, Cherkasy oblast, Ukraine, 2021. The village is the homeland of Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet and national symbol. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Folk holiday Malanka celebration in Bukovyna, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine, 2015. ©Oleksandr Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
Dancing school for plus size women in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018. ©Oleksander Rupeta for the VII Mentor Program.
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Oleksandr Rupeta

VII Mentor Program 2023-24

Oleksandr Rupeta is a Ukrainian photographer working worldwide. He carries out short and long-term projects about political, cultural, and social life in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. His works highlight the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Afghan Red Crescent Society, the life of the Iranian Jewish community, the Sufi Community in Northern Cyprus, people with disabilities in Southern African countries, ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, the communist legacy in the Balkans, the LGBT community in China, and more. To date, his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Nature, and Forbes. 

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