I am a Ukrainian-born art photographer based in Royston, UK. My work explores human presence, surrealism, and the subtle tension between reality and illusion through street photography and environmental portraiture.
 

I am drawn to moments when the familiar begins to shift. Through light, composition, structure and timing, I look for images that reveal something quieter and less obvious beneath the surface. I am interested in fleeting expressions, visual fragments, and the emotional undercurrents of everyday life.

Photography, for me, is a way of paying close attention. It allows me to slow down, look harder, and engage with the world honestly. I am not interested in simply documenting what is there, but in showing how perception shapes reality, and how an image can hold presence, ambiguity and silence at once.

Black-and-white photography is central to my practice. I see it not as the absence of colour, but as its deeper presence, a kind of transcendence. It brings me closer to structure, mood and the emotional depth of a moment.

Coming to photography from a background outside the arts, I am naturally drawn to structure, geometry and perspective. Together with a surreal artistic sensibility, this gives my work clarity, precision and intent.

Selected Exhibitions & Representation

Shape of Silence, Solo Exhibition, Royston, UK, 2026
PhotoMonth Photography Festival, London, UK, 2025
New Voices, Group Exhibition, Paris, France, 2025
Inequality, Group Exhibition, Bath, UK, 2025
Art and Horse Racing Gallery, Newmarket, UK, 2023
Kyiv Photo Book Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
Photo Kyiv Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018