People nominee

I like the enthusiasm and good nature of the caroling tradition. Maslenitsa and Christmastide days are always a time of transformation, an unstable time when you can dress up in a carnival, sing and kindly bully each other. The words were spoken at this time, perhaps, will direct us and the surrounding reality in some other direction - where there is a lot of delicious food on the table, loved ones are always nearby and luck will never leave our home. I think this way of conjuring oneself and reality is extremely effective and very joyful, which is of course important.


Photography is usually considered as a way to convey reality but staged photography tells us a different truth. It is the courage to find your point of view on familiar things and to create worlds that momentarily flash with inner magic and tell us their stories. Photography is a bit like cooking: you take ingredients and mix them - color, characters, props, surroundings - and you get a new world

Photographer and designer from Moscow, working in the genre of staged photography, creating commercial and personal projects. I am interested in creating an authentic fictional world in the frame and populating it with characters with their own logic and character. I also look for these characters in the real world - there are so many stories just waiting to be told.

Areas of interest:
- Folkloristics and the structure of fairy tales;
- ethnography and history of the region;
- the history of fashion, the impact of clothing on the individual;
- societies and social institutions with distinctive and unique features;
- charisma and charismatic personalities of the past and present.


Awards & grants
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2024

35AWARDS 2023

Polytech Grant 2022

ND awards 2022

35AWARDS 2022

Fine Art Photography Awards 2022
Tokyo Foto Awards 2020
IPA Advertising 2020
International Color Awards 2020
35AWARDS 2019