[1] Hoffman is a contributing photographer to National Geographic magazine, The New York Times, and other leading publications.
He began working in Ukraine in late 2013 during the Revolution of Dignity, and covered the protests for Getty Images until their conclusion with the removal of then-president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.
He began working in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in April 2014 as war broke out, and relocated from Moscow to Kyiv later that spring.
Since 2018, his work from eastern Ukraine has been exhibited in a number of Ukrainian cities, including Mariupol, Sumy, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, and Kryvyi Rih.
[19][20][21] His first feature story for National Geographic, on the Indus River, is due for publication in July 2020.