The project highlights the territorial conflict between the urban development machine and the needs of a large municipal shelter, hosting several thousand animals. This conflict is an example of the gentrification phenomenon in the realities of modern Russia.
In a series of photographs I pose several questions: do domesticated animals have the right to preserve their temporary habitat? Can an entity that has significant power put its interests forward and ignore the needs of a weaker one?
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 photoprojects I explore topics related to the borders of territories and peoples.
As an artist, I formulate my task in directing camera lens to where it is painful and unpleasant to look and in showing there is still some beauty in it.
Awards Personal exhibitions
2023 Contour of love / Photoexhibition / Sergiev Posad, Russia
Groupe shows (selected)
2023 19th Julia Margareth Cameron Award Exhibition / Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2023 1st B&W Athens Photography / BlankWall Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Awards and Mentions
2022 19th Julia Margareth Cameron Award. Special mention of the jury.
2022 1st B&W Athens Photography. Shortlist, participant of the festival.
Artist talks
2023 "Photobook as a multi-layered visual communication".
2022 Artist talk during the exhibition "Photobook: document, history, object".
Education (selected)
2020ā2022 Rodchenko Art School / Moscow, Russia
2001ā2003 Master program in Sociology, HSE / Moscow, Russia
