Beyond Crime

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/People
• Photographer
  Svetlana Melik-Nubarova, Kazakhstan
• Date of Photograph
  2025 - 2026
• Studio
  Svetlana Melik-nubarova
• Website
  https://1x.com/member/arttherapist

Beyond Crime is a conceptual photographic series inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Through the figures of Raskolnikov, Sonya, Katerina Ivanovna, Lizaveta and Porfiry, the project explores how violence becomes justified not through emotion, but through ideas. It traces the transformation of murder from a crime into a belief system, revealing dehumanization as the key mechanism that allows killing to appear necessary, rational, and morally acceptable — and therefore to exist without remorse.

Svetlana is a fine art photographer from Kazakhstan. She uses style of an old portrait painting to create images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique creates beautiful evocations of universal emotions of beauty, femininity and fragility. She expertly visualizes atmospheric dreams, utilizing the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the modern world. Svetlana has exhibited internationally with collective exhibitions in Europe and the USA. She has also exhibited at Paris.

Awards Trienberg (Linz, Austria) - a gold medal in 2016
Cliftons Art Prize 2017 Finalists
2017 Tokyo International Foto Awards winner (Bronze)
2018 Paris Photo Prize (Gold)
2018 Siena International Photo Awords(Honourable Mention)