Bio

Professional photographer, photography teacher. Author of photographic courses. Member of the Union of Photographers of Russia. One of the top portrait photographers for actors in Moscow.

Vlada’s works were exhibited at I’mpressed in Taiga gallery/St. Petersburg, Self Publish Riga in The Mill/Riga, F Book Show in 72Gallery/Tokyo, Zine Jam in Mediamatic Fabriek/Amsterdam, Relapse of the private in NCCA/Moscow.

Apart from human portraits Vlada’s interest lies in spontaneous photography that balances on various improvisational structures, as well as street photography. Many of her personal artistic projects and coaching sessions for students build from her skills of being a professional and a playful researcher of photography at the same time.

Project

In their project at Olot Vlada will be collaborating with her fellow artist Lena Kholkina and local people. They will be inviting Olot residents to a photographic workshop that will playfully create a set of portraits, temporary sculptures and still-lives, as well gather stories from the local context. Vlada will be offering some photographic strategies to the workshop participants, so that the artists and the group may build a narrative for a larger story and, eventually, a book or a zine, from the visuals created during the workshop.

Lena and Vlada would like to invite local people to engage in the project, so they will be offering a program of events like artist talks, photoshoots and making a book dummy workshop.