This series explores the instability of perception and the transformation of reality through distortion.
Using reflections, water, movement, colour and architectural space, I create images that shift between recognition and abstraction. Familiar forms — bodies, flowers, interiors and structures — become fragmented and fluid, challenging the viewer’s sense of scale, depth and physicality.
The photographs do not aim to document reality as something fixed. Instead, they treat the photographic image as a space of transformation, where what is seen can simultaneously feel familiar and strange.
The series reflects on the fragile boundary between the physical world and its perception — between presence and disappearance, structure and fluidity, reality and memory.
Biography
I am an architect and photographer who recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture for Heritage from Politecnico di Torino. I am currently continuing my academic research as a visiting student at FH Potsdam in Germany.
Born and raised in Russia, I developed an early sensitivity to atmosphere, materiality, and the emotional character of spaces. My background in architecture strongly influences my photographic practice, shaping the way I observe structure, light, scale, and the relationship between the human body and its surroundings.
Through photography, I explore how spaces and familiar forms can shift when filtered through movement, reflection, colour, and distortion. I am interested in capturing their psychological and sensory qualities, the feeling of inhabiting a space, remembering it, or experiencing it in a moment when perception becomes unstable.
My work moves between architecture and abstraction, exploring the boundary between the physical environment and its subjective perception.