Conceptual nominee

You live in a room full of darkness. The room inside your head. It’s lonely.
You entered to hide but there’s only blackness inside – reflection of nightmares and fears.
The darkness wraps around you - you can’t wash it off with soap…you are never clean enough.
It has you screaming... but no sound coming out.
You crawl in the corner to hide... but even walls seem to be against you.
“Just hang in there” – they will say not seeing that you’re falling to pieces.
The anxiety that never stops…it will make you go mad trying to remove that itch… Your skin is your enemy.
It will run thorns through your spine – everything hurts but it’s only you.
You locked yourself inside.Are you a person worthy of coming out? With that darkness around you, spikes down your spine…who needs this ugliness? Maybe creature like this deserves to leave in darkness?
You’re in it alone…no one can see from the outside monsters that hide in the darkness…and only you know that monster you are scared of the most – is part of you.
You walk around, but wherever you go you still carry that dark room with you.

Viktoriia Krundysheva is a fiction-based  conceptual photographer whose work  focuses on fine-art, fashion and portraiture.

She started her photography career in 2009 and since than has been working as an independent photographer in Russia and India.

Viktoriia's distinctive vision of photography is etched as a journey of self-discovery and unity with nature, while her unconditional and insightful images exist in that space between sanity and insanity, conscious and unconscious, between dreaming and awakening.

All work of Viktoriia is inspired by her free spirit and attention to details. Her pictures are her personal meditation, way to connect with the world inside her and outside.