RUSS LAND

This photo project started in 2014 and kept running through 2016, combining different stories, inspired with Russian folklore and dark side of fairy tales. Most of kokoshniks, masks and outfits made by the artist as well as photographs. None of works had been digitally manipulated.
 
  THE SUGAR OF BEAUTY

THE SUGAR OF BEAUTY

Analogue from May 2015

Outfit made by the artist

Combination of provocative interpretation of the concept about a beauty with orthodox and stereotyped one. The beauty of inner, excludes to give an invitation to its world to those who are closed in narrow perception of standards and sees bad there it doesn’t exist. This image of a girl which has non-standard appearance of beauty having in her ears candies (the most “Russians” ones, named “Alenushka” (one the most common names in fairy tales and folklore songs) with an image of a girl illustrating typical “beauty” and the way young girl should look like, otherwise no marriage is possible for her in the eyes of her surrounding. The model holds a type of beauty that is challenging a cliché.

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