Life is still a garden, don't say otherwise

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Veronika Trubnikova, Russian Federation
• Date of Photograph
  2023-2025
• Website
  https://trubnikova.photo
• Instagram
  trubnikova_photo

Am I a gardener of my own life? If so, my garden is free from any violence and coercion. It's a safe place in turbulent times and when I'm far away, my garden is still inside me. And for kids it's an essential space for safe and calm growing up.

Shooting portraits of kids in the garden space around them, I admire the way they live freely in the natural environment. I prefer blurred contours (using film and retro cameras or monocles) and dark tones, recreating the space of black and white dreams. This is how I turns to the memories of my own childhood.

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