Fine Art nominee

At the moment the most popular type of photography among internet users is the selfie.
For the last two months, I surfed through some of the most popular social networks around the world. I looked at the faces of completely strange people. After two hours of surfing, I found that I could not even remember one face from the thousands. They merged into a single collage inside of my head.
During the last two months, I downloaded 100 selfies every day (in accordance with the policies of the websites there was no restriction on that). These were the "best"—offered to me by the networks.
Then, I manually merged these 100 pictures, layering them in a photo-editing program. I used the same level of transparency on each picture thus, every portrait was equal in the final collage.
The selfies very easily layered on each other. Each of the subjects, in trying to look uniquely magnificent in the lens of their phones were all posing in almost exactly the same way.
So I had a composite image of the above-average "selfier." An accumulation of our stereotyped ideas of what good-looking means. A portrait of the modern person—the Magnificent.

Born in Leningrad, Russia in 1985.
I am a freelance documentary photographer working on a regular basis with National Geographic Russia, VICE UK/USA, lenta.ru, Takie Dela, Bird in Flight, Open Russia, Meduza, Vokrug Sveta magazines, RIA novosti, Kommersant photos and Getty Images agencies as a stringer.
In 2014 I graduated from U.A.Galperin School of Photojournalism of Saint-Petersburg with Golden Mark - award for the best diploma project which was dedicated to the revolution in Kiev.
In 2014-15 I spent 10 months in Nepal cooperating with different non-governmental structures and organizations such as Red Cross Nepal, Nepal Leprosy Trust whilst executing projects covering human rights issues in the country - children with HIV, discrimination of leprosy affected people, human trafficking.
I am the awardee of the number of international contests such as: winner of Istanbul Photo Awards 2018 in Daily Life Story category; winner of Debuts 2018 photocontest organized by Doc! Photomagazine; grand prix at Non-accidental Witness photocontest 2016; finalist of Hellerau Portraits Awards 2016, 2017; honorable mentions at Photography Grant 2016, 2017; winner of Luis Valtuena Humanitarian Photography Award 2016 granted by Doctors of the World.