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• Photographer
  Jana Romanova, Russian Federation
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Website
  http://janaromanova.com

Throughout the human history concepts of beauty and ugliness varied
depending on time and culture, but people always tried to define them
relying on some constant example.
Iâ??ve had a lot of questions to the modern idea of beauty since school years.
Trying to find, to touch, to personalize this â??constant exampleâ?? I
asked different young women, whose look and self-attitude, I thought,
were different from mine, and who were considered to be beautiful
inside their communities, to do whatever they felt comfortable for the
moment to present themselves as feminine, attractive and beautiful
girls. Standing at the background I copied their poses, keeping my
appearance always the same.
Latvia-Russia, 2011

• Biography
  Jana Romanova was born in 1984 in Russia, and got a degree in journalism from Saint-Petersburg State University. Her long-term documentary projects were selected for a number of exhibitions in Russia, in 2011 her works were included in the Backlight Festival exposition (Finland). She got several prizes and honorable mentions all over the world, such as PDN Photo Annual (USA) in 2011 and Photography Book Now by Blurb 2011 in documentary category. Currently she cooperates with Russian Reporter magazine in Russia and Anzenberger agency worldwide. In 2011 she became a teacher of photography at the Faculty of Photojournalists in Saint-Petersburg.
• Awards
  2012 – 3d prize in “People” at International Photography Awards by Lucie Foundation, USA; 2011 – Bratislava Portfolio Review, 3d priz; 2011 - Photography Book Now, Honorable mention (documentary); 2011 – PDN Photo Annual (documentary); 2011 – Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable mention; 2010 - 2nd prize in "Young Man in 21st Sentury", Lithuania; 2010 – Finalist of the Vilnius PhotoCircle Festival, Lithuania;