Insula

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Veronika Trubnikova, Russian Federation
• Date of Photograph
  2021
• Website
  https://trubnikova.photo
• Instagram
  trubnikova_photo

Insula is the lost island of childhood. With my camera, I capture the process of growing up of my children and the invisible border that arises between us. Children build their own world, I learns to let go and to accept.

In this process I relive my own period of growing up, in which a significant place was occupied by the experience of the absence of boundaries, subjectively perceived then as the absence of love.

Landscape — the territory where children live and grow up, acts as a separate character in the project and plays an important role.

Photographer, visual artist, live and work in Moscow (Russia).

I assign an important role to the economy of narration in both visual and meaningful senses, leaving to the viewer a space for imaginative perception. Great importance I attach to the shooting space, often making the landscape a separate character.

In my works I often turn to the topic of boundaries — physical and mental: dividing communities, individuals, personal and public, past and present, possible and impossible. I'm also interested in what it means to live without belonging to any of the parties separated by the borders.

Awards 2024 PX3 / Gold category winner / Film photo

2025 Muse photo award / Platinum winner / Fine art portrait

2024 NY Photography award / Silver winner / Film photograph

2024 PX3 / Silver winner / Photo book

2024 IPA Official Selection

2024 Lens Culture Black& White / Editors' Choice (longlist)

2024 2d B& W Athens Photography. Shortlisted participant of the festival

2023 19th Pollux Award. Special mention of jury

2023 The best photo books of the year by PHotoESPAÑA. Finalist of the award.

2023 IPA Official Selection, Special Mention of jury

2023 Lens Culture Critics’ Choice. Editors' choice (long list)

2022 19th Julia Margareth Cameron Award. Special mention to Jure

2022 1st B&W Athens Photography. Shortlist, participant of the festival