On September 24, an exhibit of Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna (Chicago, USA) will be launched in the Olena Zamostian Arts Gallery of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The exhibition includes 119 photographs she took in various countries of the world, where her lens captured people, the beauty of nature, and architectural landmarks. This exhibit has already been displayed in Chicago.
Roksolana graduated from professional school of photography in Illinois. Since then she has enjoyed taking photos in different countries of the world. But she always returns to Ukraine, since her love for the country and its people is unsurpassed by that of any other place.
She is a professional dentist and worked as such for over 28 years. She first came to Ukraine on the mission Medicine on Wheels in 1992, dedicated to healing orphans and pregnant women. The faces of orphans whom she helped became the core of her photo exhibition, Starving for Color, which was displayed in Chicago in 2002 and in Philadelphia in 2003. Its success facilitated setting up a fund under the same name in the US to collect money for orphanages in Ukraine.
Each year between 2002 and 2006 Tymiak-Lonchyna held photo exhibits hosted by Easter Seals, an organization that helps disabled children. The proceeds from calendars published in 2004 and 2010 and the book Conscience Calls (2005) were transferred by the fund she had set up. In October, 2009, in Lviv Tymiak-Lonchyna presented her photo exhibition “Our Language of a Nightingale.” In 2007 her works, together with photographs by Ukrainian photo artists, became part of the book Ukrainian Photographs.
Today Tymiak-Lonchyna often comes to Ukraine to provide aid to underage children in orphanages and boarding houses. She also presents her photographs.
The current exhibit will be open in Kyiv Mohyla Academy till October 8. Then this photo collection will be presented in Lviv. The exhibit is supported by the US Embassy in Ukraine, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Meest-Karpaty, Inc, Shipping Bridge to Eastern Europe.
