Portrait 1st place winner

This “Revival” is the return to the spiritual. The 21st century is the century of loss of faith. The borders of right and
wrong are blurred, prosperity ruins spirituality. People have only recently started to live in comfort; the task now is to learn to comb ine physical comfort with the develops ent of our soul. It is hard. Somewhere there was a gap in time between the religious period and pop culture. Yet, faith is such a vital need of our psyche that people look for its new incarnations or try to transform the existing ones. And since these searches occur from time to time, this leads to a cyclical repetition. If Renaissance is an escape from the influence of the Church to the exploration of identity and the living material world, «Revival» is an escape from consumerism and materialism, imp osed by the society, to the exploration of oneself and personal spiritual growth. Neorenaissance in everyday life. :::::


A detailed text (a little bit longer)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hahl9crxwt6fnw7/concept%20Revival.rtf?dl=0

Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.