The Ring

• Photographer
  Katya Evdokimova, United Kingdom
• Website
  http://www.begemotfoto.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/begemotique/

shot on Holga

Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Katya Evdokimova is a professional photographer who lives and works in the UK and Europe. After earning her BA from University College London in 1999, she has since 2003 found herself captivated by and single-mindedly committed to the medium of photography. Self-taught, she has since had her work exhibited in multiple shows around the world including The Royal Photographic Society, ‘Selected Images: 1854 – 2012’ as part of Bristol Festival of Photography, solo exhibition at HayHill Gallery, Cork St in London, in 2009, at Musée de L’Elysée’s, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2007, and Cooper Union, New York.
In 2006 her work was chosen for the cover of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as one of four Penguin Classics reprints that year. Her photographs have been published in many publications such as British Journal of Photography, The Independent, DayFour, Light and Lens: Photography of the Digital Age by Focal Press, as well as being part of a permanent collection at Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan.
She has been awarded multiple photographic awards, most recently winner at Photo Life's Image International, Canada, in 2010; Professional Photographer of the Year in Portrait category in 2006 by Professional Photography Magazine, UK; semi-finalist in the Hasselblad Masters Awards; and shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in 2008. In 2008 she was also the recipient of the grand prize for the exhibition organised by the British Council in Bogotá, Colombia.

Awards PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris, Altered Images Competition, Honourable mention,
2011
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Interegional Photographic Competition,
Honourable Mention, US 2011
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Annual Pollux Awards, US 2010
RoHo Photo Gallery, Point of View, US 2011
Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan 2011
Photo Life’s Image International 2010
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Black and White, US 2010
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, US 2010
Photoinduced, Let's Do Lunch, US 2010
Renaissance Photography Prize, UK 2010
London Photographic Awards, The World Through Your Eyes, Honourable Mention, UK 2009
Professional Photographer of the Year, Professional Photographer Magazine, UK 2009
International Photography Awards, US 2008
Shoot Experience London, UK 2008
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008, UK
Sony World Photography Awards, 2008
Hasselblad Masters Award, Semi-finalist, 2008
London Photographic Award, “Renaissance”, UK 2008
Panasonic International Lumix Award, 2007
Professional Photographer of the Year, Professional
Photographer magazine, UK 2006
Dostoyevsky “Crime and Punishment”, Winner of Guardian/Penguin
Cover Competition, UK 2006