Iryna Kovalenko · Kyiv

Timeless photographs with honest emotion

Kyiv-based photographer for weddings, couples, editorial and film — quiet moments, preserved with warmth and care.

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Meet Iryna

I'm Iryna Kovalenko, a Kyiv-based photographer drawn to the quiet, honest moments that make a story yours.

With calm, gentle direction and an editorial eye, I create space for you to feel at ease. The result is a collection of timeless images that feel as true years from now as they do today.

In practice

Quiet reassurance, measured honestly.

Years behind the cameraPhotographing weddings, couples and editorial stories across Kyiv and Europe since 2014.
12+
Weddings & sessions documentedFrom intimate elopements to full-day celebrations, on digital and medium-format film.
340+
Weeks to your full gallerySneak peeks within 72 hours, every image carefully edited and delivered in four weeks.
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Portfolio

Selected work

Quiet moments, honest light, and frames made to outlast the day they were taken.

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Bride in tears of joy during vows beside the groom in a sunlit chapel

Weddings · The vows, Kyiv

Bride with a long tulle veil lifted by wind on a stone staircase

Weddings · Veil in the wind

Couple embracing in a golden wheat field at sunset

Couples · Golden hour

Couple laughing together by a tall window in a bright apartment

Couples · Sunday morning

Model in a camel wool coat against a plaster wall in hard window light

Editorial · Autumn story

Close portrait of a woman in an ivory silk blouse with sculpted shadows

Editorial · Ivory

Grainy film photograph of a woman walking along a misty seashore

Film · Odesa fog

Film-style image of a couple at a small café table in warm evening light

Film · Café, Podil

Services & Investment

Sessions shaped around your story

Every collection is tailored after a first conversation — these ranges simply help you find where to begin.

  • 01

    Couples Session

    Engagements, anniversaries, quiet portraits

    ₴12,000 – ₴18,000

    • 90 minutes to 2 hours in Kyiv
    • Location and styling guidance
    • 60+ hand-edited images
    • Private online gallery within 2 weeks
    Enquire

  • 02 · Signature

    Wedding Day

    Full-day documentary coverage

    ₴55,000 – ₴95,000

    • 8 to 12 hours, preparations to first dance
    • Planning call and timeline consultation
    • 500+ edited images, sneak peek in 72 hours
    • Optional heirloom linen album
    Check your date

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    Editorial & Film

    Brands, magazines, 35mm and medium format

    ₴20,000 – ₴40,000

    • Half or full-day production
    • Moodboard and creative direction
    • Film developing and high-res scans
    • Usage licence for print and digital
    Discuss a project

Travel across Ukraine and Europe available on request.

Kind words

How it felt, in their words

Couples and clients on the quiet calm behind the camera, and the photographs that followed.

We barely noticed Iryna was there, and yet every glance and laugh was caught. Our parents cried looking through the album.

Olena & Taras Melnyk

Wedding · Kyiv

I hate being photographed. Within ten minutes I forgot the camera. The photos look like us on a very good day.

Daria Shevchuk

Couple session

Clear brief, calm set, delivered a day early. The light in those frames is exactly what our autumn issue needed.

Marta Hrytsenko

Editorial shoot

It rained all afternoon and she simply smiled and found a doorway. Those rainy photos are now our favourites.

Anna & Mark Weber

Wedding · Lviv

We asked for film for our engagement and the grain, the colour, the softness — it feels like a memory already.

Sofiia & Andrii Bondar

Film engagement

Thoughtful from the first call. She planned the timeline with us, so on the day we could just be present.

Kateryna Lysenko

Wedding · Odesa

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Availability · 2026–2027

Let’s hold a date for your story.

A handful of dates remain open this season. Write or call directly — I reply personally within one working day.

Next open dates

  • Sat, 17 Oct 2026
  • Sun, 1 Nov 2026
  • Sat, 5 Dec 2026
  • Sat, 16 Jan 2027
  • Fri, 12 Feb 2027
  • Summer 2027 — limited

Weekday sessions and film editorials: flexible, by arrangement.

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Based in Kyiv · available for travel across Europe.