Bohdan Warchomij

Bohdan Warchomij is a free lance photojournalist based in Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Wimbern, Germany (27 October 1946) in a displaced person's camp to Ukrainian parents. His parents migrated to Australia in 1949.
He studied English literature at the University of Western Australia and received a first class honours degree in 1974.
After teaching for ten years he lived in New York and began a freelance career as a photographer. He works as a freelancer for newspapers such as The Australian, the Sunday Times, The Financial Review, and agencies such as Australian Associated Press from his base in Perth.
In 2004 he covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine for Canada's Globe and Mail working with journalist Mark McKinnon (author of The New Cold War), The Times, working with Jeremy Page, and papers such as The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
The experience led to a major exhibition at Foto Freo in Fremantle Prison in 2006 and subsequently a definitive book on the revolution entitled “Portrait of a Revolution”, publisher Backpackbook, 2006.
In 2008 he launched an agency website called Metaphor Images ((www.metaphorimages.com)) with a projection at FotoFreo 2008. Contributing photographers were Jan Joseph Stok, Manca Juvan, Rafal Milach, Robert McPherson. His exhibition at Foto Freo at the Queen Street Gallery was “ZONE", an examination of the medical issues in Ukraine linked to Chernobyl. “Zone” was projected at Kaunas Photo Festival in Lithuania in 2008.

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