As a photojournalist for the past 20 years, Yuri Kozyrev has covered every major conflict in the former Soviet Union, including two Chechen wars. Immediately after September 11, 2001, he was on the scene in Afghanistan, where he documented the fall of the Taliban.

Kozyrev lived in Baghdad, Iraq between 2003 and 2009, as a contract photographer for TIME Magazine. He has traveled all over Iraq, photographing the different sides of the conflict. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been following the Arab unrests, traveling in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen.

Yuri Kozyrev has received numerous honors for his photography, including several World Press Photo Award for pictures from Chechnya, Iraq and Beslan. He was the recipient of the Overseas Press Club Oliver Rebbot Award in 2004 for his Iraq coverage. In 2006, he was the recipient of the ICP Infinity award for photojournalism and he won the 2008 Frontline Club Award for his extensive coverage of the Iraq war.

In 2011, Yuri won the Visa d'or News for his body of work: "On Revolution Road". Since February, Yuri traveled to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya to cover the Arab revolts for Time magazine. With this prize, organized by the international festival of photojournalism Visa Pour l'Image, some of the most renowned international picture editors acknowledged the best report published between September 2010 and August 2011. He also won both Trophee and Public Prize at the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for his work "Dispatch from Libya".

In 2012 his work has been awarded at the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International.

2011  Periscopio,Vitoria, Spain. From 21 Oct. to 4 Dec.
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  Gallery M55, Athens, Greece. From 15 Oct. to 15 Nov.
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  Prix-Bayeux Calvados, France. From 3 to 9 Oct.
         "On Revolution Road"

2011 10b photography gallery, Rome, Italy. From 27 Sept. to 28 Oct.
        "On Revolution Road"

2011  Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France. 27 Aug. to 16 Sept.
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 1 Aug. to 28 Oct.
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  LOOK3, Charlottesville, US. June
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  Images Singulières festival, Sète, France. June
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  "Changes", Tbilisi, Georgia. 25 till 31 May
         "On Revolution Road"

2011  La Petite Poule Noire, Paris, France. April
         "On Revolution Road"

2010  Ico Gallery by Nuru Project, New York, USA
         "Iraq"

2010 The [Un]Familiar festival, Moscow, Russia
        "Projections of Reality: Encounters"

2010 World Tour Exhibition
        Launched at the United Nations Climate Summit
        in Copenhagen in December2009
        "Consequences by NOOR"

2009 Shinjuku Takashimaya Department, Tokyo, Japan
        "This Days of Change"
        collective exhibition organized by Courrier Japon

2008 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
        "Inside Iraq"

2008 Gallery FCB, New York, USA
        "Battlespace; unrealities of war" group exhibition

2007 War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, Croatia
        "Iraq: witnessed"

2006 The Center of photography of Lectoure, France
        "Iraq 2002-2006"

2005 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
        "Iraq 2002-2005"

2000 Moscow, Russia
        "Chechnya 2000"

Kozyrev's photographs were included in TIME 's photo-essay:
 
21 Days to Baghdad (2003)
With other photographers and journalists
Published by Time Inc.