Portrait nominee

"Am I a gardener of my own life? If so, my garden is free from any violence and coercion. It's a safe place in turbulent times and when I'm far away, my garden is still inside me. And for kids it's an essential space for safe and calm growing up."

Shooting portraits of kids in the garden space around them, Veronika admires the way they live freely in the natural environment. She prefers blurred contours (using film and retro cameras or monocles) and dark tones, recreating the space of black and white dreams. This is how she turns to the memories of her own childhood, while at the same time creating a space of memories for kids, where they can always return in the future and feel themselves being safe and innocent again. Blurred contours are also a symbol of the blurring of borders and their appearance in places other than expected, which the authors admits to feel.

Veronika Trubnikova is a Moscow based artist born in 1980 in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

On March 2022 published her first photo book “Future Perspectives”, starting to participate in exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The photobook has been released in 2 editions in Russian and English. At the moment, the book is presented in the fund of the MMOMA educational center and in a number of foreign stores and galleries. The book was included in the shortlist of "The best photobook of the year 2023" award by PHotoESPAÑA.

Veronika's works participate in personal and group exhibitions in Russia, Greece, USA and Spain and have special mentions from the jury of international contests.
She uses both digital and film cameras, prefers analog shooting in natural light.
Veronika assigns an important role to the economy of narration in both visual and meaningful senses, leaving to the viewer a space for imaginative perception.Great importance attaches to the shooting space, often making the landscape a separate character.