Emine Ziyatdin

Emine Ziyatdin is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar visual artist and researcher. She was born in Uzbekistan, where her family had been deported by the Soviet regime along with the entire Crimean Tatar population in 1944. In 1990, her family returned to Crimea. Ziyatdin's work explores themes of home, belonging, and collective memory through visual and research-based approaches. She holds an MA in sociology from the National University of Lviv and an MA in photojournalism from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Fellowship.

Emine’s photography has been exhibited in Ukraine and internationally. She is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and PhD researcher in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge.