Tetiana Dodonova

Tetiana Dodonova is a photographer in Ottawa, Ontario. Her own Instagram account describes what she shoots in four lines: portrait photography, family photography, event photography, street photography. Her Facebook profile, labelled Photographer, carries the line “The camera is a tool that teaches people how to see the world without a camera.”

She comes from Odesa and studied at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University; her Facebook profile lists Ottawa, Ontario as where she lives now.

Much of her work is other people’s big days. In August 2026 alone she posted a family session shot among the flowering trees of the Arboretum, a training session at Karate SO Shinkyokushinkai Ottawa, and a christening. She has photographed the Professional Engineers Ontario New Members Ceremony, where new engineers receive their licences, more than once — most recently in July 2026 — and she was the photographer for the launch of Welcoming Ottawa Week 2026. In June 2026 she photographed the Last Bell celebration at the Lesya Ukrainka Ukrainian School in Ottawa — pupils in embroidered shirts around hand-painted numerals reading 2026.

In November 2025 she was nominated for the Canadian Choice Award 2026 in the Event Photographers category, calling it a surprise she had truly been hoping for. In January 2026 she announced that she had won, and the award’s Ottawa winners page for 2026 lists Tetiana Dodonova Photographer as winner in the category of Event Photographers.

The Ukrainian Festival in Lanark County has been crediting her since 2024. She was the first name in the festival’s thank-you to its photographers and videographers after the 2024 event, a festival photo published that September was captioned “Photo by a brilliant photographer Тетяна Додонова”, and her credit line still runs under the organisers’ posts in 2026.