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I use collage as a medium for visual storytelling — especially when it comes to themes that are difficult to illustrate: violence, memory, identity. My background in journalism helps me work deeply with meaning and metaphor.

My works serve as illustrations for journalistic pieces, analytical texts, socio-cultural materials, human rights reports, as well as book and music album covers.

These collages do more than decorate a text — they help reveal its depth and emotional resonance. You might check my website with other photographies

More information about me

Memory

Illustrations for “The Resistance Cookbook” for Dalan.fund.

My collages accompany the recipes in this cookbook and help convey the spirit of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central and Northern Asia. In my work, I used symbolism, patterns, and metaphors to reflect cultural identity and distinctiveness.

Collages for the report Testimonies of Women in Places of Detention in Belarus. A series of collages based on documentary photographs and the testimonies of women who endured violence, humiliation, and isolation in Belarusian places of detention. These works convey the experience of imprisonment through the metaphor of another planet — a world that is almost impossible to comprehend for those who haven’t been there.