Iryna Pap (Freida Iosypivna Pap 4 May 1917 Odesa – 8 May 1985 Kyiv) was a Soviet Ukrainian photojournalist. She founded of one of the first schools of photography in the Soviet Union.
Career
editShe graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Cinematography and worked at a Moscow newsreel studio.[1] After the end of World War II, she returned to Kyiv .
In 1949, she moved to Uzhhorod, where she worked as a correspondent for the "Soviet Transcarpathia" newspaper . There she met photographer Boris Gradov, whom she married. In 1951, they moved to Kyiv, and in 1952, Iryna Pap began managing the newsreel studio, now known as "Ukrinform ".[2]
From 1958 to 1971, she worked for Izvestia.[3][4]
In 1971, she founded a photography school at the Institute of Photojournalism of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.[5][6] In addition to full-time teachers, the school invited lecturers from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Russia, such as Dmytry Baltermants, Yevheny Khaldei, and Anastas Sutkus. Among the graduates of the school were Ukrainian photographers, Viktor Marushchenko, Valeriy Kerekesh, Serhiy Pozharskyi, Rita Ostrovskaya, and Oleksandr Ranchukov.[1][7]
She died on 8 May 1985 in Kyiv.
Her archive is held at the Fotohof Archiv.[3][8][9]
References
edit- 1 2 kyivpastfuture (2020-05-04). "Київ на фото Ірини Пап | КВІДО | Київ від минулого до майбутнього" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ "Що можна знайти у приватному фотоархіві? – Новини культури України" (in Ukrainian). 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- 1 2 Filyuk, Kateryna (2022-07-01). "The Marking of Absence: What is Contained in the Archive of Iryna Pap". Zivot Umjetnosti. 111: 146. doi:10.31664/zu.2022.111.11. ISSN 0514-7794.
- ↑ "Iryna Pap". Point of Resistance (in German). Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ Глеба, Галина (2020-02-07). "Поза кадром. Українські фотографки XX століття". Your Art. Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ "Irina Pap / Ірина Пап". Secondary Archive (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ Istomina, Toma (2021-03-04). "Ukrainian photography in spotlight of new artsy magazine - Mar. 04, 2021". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ "Long live archive or the adventures of Iryna Pap's oeuvre". Central European University. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2026-06-11.
- ↑ Filyuk, K. (July 2025). "Between Forgotten Frames: The Rediscovery and Challenge of Iryna Pap".
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