Ukrainian Irynka Hromotska has been named one of 10 photographers of the 2018 Rising Stars of Photography program organized by computer software company Adobe.
The company on Aug. 13 announced the photographers it had selected to showcase. Over the next month-and-a-half, Adobe will highlight five photographs by each of the photographers on its Instagram account for Lightroom, an Adobe product.
Hromotska is a documentary photographer and a recent graduate, according to her website. Currently based in Sri Lanka, she is interested in environmental issues and women’s rights.
The 23-year-old Hromotska’s selected picture, featuring two women in national dress, was taken in the Chinese province of Yunnan.
“There’s nothing better than getting the chance to showcase the work you’re passionate about,” Hromotska said on her Instagram page, speaking about her nomination for the Adobe program.
An Adobe blog that features the finalist reads that Hromotska grew up in an academic family and learned how to operate a camera from YouTube tutorials and interviews with photographers. Today, her Instagram page features mainly portraits of locals in Asia, dressed in traditional clothes, as well as their daily life, nature and travel photos.
“A self-taught photographer, Hromotska avoids formal portraiture, leaning towards street photography, through which she can capture images of women and children in their uncontrived surroundings,” Adobe’s Principal Product Manager Lex van den Berghe said in his blog post. “Irynka’s projects center around women’s rights, and she hopes to use her work to show how women live, their everyday struggles, as well as their happy moments.”
Besides Hromotska, the lineup features photographers who come from South Africa, the United States, Indonesia, Denmark, Germany, and Ethiopia, aged from 16 to 50.
