Hanna was born in eastern Ukraine in 1991. She holds a Master’s degree in languages and the history of Western literature. Following the Russian military aggression in Ukraine in 2014, she was forced to seek a new home and accepted the position of a university lecturer in Western literature before deciding to devote herself entirely to her lifelong passion – photography.
In 2022, Hanna relocated to London due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Within a month of her arrival, she began an internship at a photo lab, where she acquired analogue skills including darkroom printing and film processing.
Her current work focuses on personal projects and on refining her practice in photogravure, alternative printing, and other hands-on analogue techniques. Drawing on her background in literature, she develops her research and visual language around literary, cultural, and philosophical themes.
Her photogravure project “The meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella” was presented at the InCadaqués Festival in October 2025, where it received the Audience Award. The project was also shortlisted for the Open Doors Gallery Prize in London in November 2025.
