Beyond Crime. What Remains

• Prize
  Gold in Fine Art/Still Life
• Photographer
  Svetlana Melik-Nubarova, Kazakhstan
• Date of Photograph
  2026
• Studio
  Svetlana Melik-nubarova
• Website
  https://1x.com/member/arttherapist

Beyond Crime. What Remains is a still life series created in dialogue with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Through humble objects—bread, broken glass, letters, a cross, a candle, a Bible, an axe—the work reflects on poverty, violence, sacrifice, faith, and moral aftermath. These objects do not serve as props, but as silent witnesses carrying memory, spiritual tension, and the irreversibility of what remains after crime enters human life and alters its fragile order.

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)