Victoria Ivleva

Victoria Ivleva
Viktorija Ivleva på Bokmässan i Göteborg 2023.
Occupation	Photographer

Victoria Markovna Ivleva-York (Russian: Виктория Марковна Ивлева-Йорк) is a Russian photographer and political activist. In 1992 she was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year award in the Science & Technology category for her series of photographs taken on 1 January 1991 of the Chernobyl plant. She prefers to take photographs in black-and-white.

Her photographs of Africa, taken after convincing the Minister of Emergency Situations, to let her travel to Rwanda, were exhibited in the Voznesensky Center in Moscow in May 2021. In November 2021 she was detained by police in Moscow for her single person protests in Pushkin Square in support of the Russian human rights organisation Memorial.