No Man?s World

SnowWhite ? Falling, Mermaid ?Sacrifice, Odette ? Slavery, Colombina ? Renunciation, Thumbelina ?Disappointment. Each story is a reflection of women?s lives. The moment that is taking place now is no different to the moments of the past. Only the emotional experience has changed and aggravated. The fairy tales are refined and polished with time. The picture of reality is much harsher. My heroines, though still the same well-known characters, are exposed in a new way. Outer beauty and elegance zealously hide the stinging inner pain. These are the young women of today, the women that live among us.

Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize.