Fine Art nominee

THE LAND OF ESCAPISM
They are all dreams: every picture is a fantasy, inspired with fantasies from russian culture and fairy tales. It's escapism - that's what it is. Not so much the portraiture, but the set pieces definitely are fantasies and I think that the model or the sitter in a picture is the window for the viewer - for any person - to be a part of that fantasy. I am asking them, inviting them, to enter into that, whether it's dark and sinister mood or a beautiful scene from the same fairy tale. All of my heroes - for me they hold a type of beauty that is challenging a cliché.
All photographs are analogues, scanned. None of the images were digitally manipulated.
All settings, objects such as moths, idea, art directing also by me.

Born in USSR in 1986.
In October 2014 Uldus was named one of the “100 Women” of the year according to BBC channel. March 2014 Bakhtiozina became the first Russian TED speaker with the talk covering her work on fighting stereotypes and clichés created around Russia. December 2015 Uldus became Senior Ted Fellow. October 2014 the finalist of Gifted Citizen Prize with the talk at the Conference CDI, Mexico. Uldus's photography were published in Vogue Italy, Aesthetica, C-41, Worbz magazines. Her works are in Museum collections: Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq RUYA and in permanent collection at Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In April 2015 Uldus's artwork was selected and nominated in Leica + Vogue Italia with exhibition in Milan. In May 2015 Uldus was awarded as a winner in TOP-50 Noble People of Saint Petersburg by local magazine Sobaka.ru. Exhibitions: Best of Russia 2011, awarded in "Style" category, group exhibition, Vinzavod, Moscow; Self universe Gaze Gallery, Berlin, Germany, May 2013; Desperate Romantics Anna Nova Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2013; Misterious russian soul, part of Vogue Italia + Leica Exhibitions,april 2015; Russ Land Anna Nova Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May-August 2015.