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Photographer of the month

Tomsk, Russia

I was born in a small settlement in Buryatia. Growing up amid northern landscapes and with parents in geological expeditions gave me a love of the road and an eye for detail. I graduated from Art School.

I traveled through 30 countries visiting museums and galleries, which shaped my sensibility and led me to photography. For the past three years I’ve focused on photographic art: mostly women’s portraits, while exploring other genres.

My works lie at the intersection of personal experience and universal states: fragility of memory, impossibility of dialogue, alienation in the digital age, corporeality as the soul’s language. My aesthetics range from Renaissance Madonnas to contemporary visuals; at times faces are absent—I leave viewers space for their own stories.

Recurring motifs include overconsumption, social constraints (“people in a box”), the “digital cages” we inhabit, and red fabric and yarn as both wound and connecting thread: signal, call for help, and symbol of inner energy of the places I work.

Elena Donskaya

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