In 2015, Vlasova got a master's degree in journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Her photographs have been published in The Guardian, NBC, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other media.
She subsequently went to Crimea to cover the 2014 Crimean referendum, and after the start of the war in Donbass, she was travelling all the time between Kyiv and the east of Ukraine.
The citation includes "quality of light and texture that illicit a connection with the people and the extent of suffering they endure" for her photos and "uncover
[4] Vlasova was the 2015 Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights Fellow at New York University,[5][6] and attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2015.