Marta Iwanek

Marta Iwanek is a Ukrainian Canadian documentary photographer and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University and the photojournalism program at Loyalist College. She also recently completed her Master in Photography and Society at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Her work examines community and family through the lens of identity and memory - what do we gain from them, and what happens when that connection is lost.

Her first short doc titled Vika, that she co-directed and filmed for CBC Short Docs received second place for Best Canadian Short Doc at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. She is a three-time Canadian National Magazine Award winner and her work has also been recognized by the Canadian Journalism Foundation, the Magenta Foundation, AI-AP, News Photographers Association of Canada, National Press Photographers Association and she was a participant in the Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, New York.

Her work has been published in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBC, NBC Left Field, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Canadian Press, the Toronto Star, CTV, and Maisonneuve.