For a deeper understanding of my work and background, you are invited to explore this website.
I hail from USSR but have spent my life in motion across the world, living and working in Moscow, Istanbul, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Budapest and currently between Barcelona and Amsterdam.
My work explores identity, cultural taboos, sexuality, and socio-political tension, drawing on the visual and narrative languages of Sergey Paradjanov, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Shūji Terayama and Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose work continues to shape how I construct and read images.
Photography is my primary form of expression because it captures moments, memory, and history in detail, and allows even staged scenes to live again, holding a gaze that lingers.
I work primarily with photography as a constructed medium. Each image is deliberate. I build scenes where reality and fiction collapse into one another, using a cinematic and performative language to control the image while leaving its meaning unsettled. Culture and tradition are not references but material. I work through them, using research and historical narratives to shift, distort, and question what is inherited.
The work exists within tension. It moves through subjects that are often restricted or left unspoken, not to explain them but to bring them into view under different conditions. Personal experience and broader histories remain entangled, without hierarchy or resolution.
The images are not meant to resolve, but to hold. A gesture, a gaze, or a detail remains suspended, allowing the viewer to confront what is present and what is implied at the same time.
