Agnese Aljena

I stole Zenit from my Dad to make "real shoots" with my 9 or so year old friends. I felt in love with the sound of Nikon shutter when I was 17. My first salary in the bank was spent on buying my first real camera. I run away from well paid job to study photography in Moscow. And returned to earn more to equip my studio. Since 2007 photography earns my living. I have tried dancing, painting, drawing, raising kids... and always returned to camera as extension of my soul. I believe in slow living, minimalism and authenticity - sometimes including, sometimes excluding each other.

PhotoAcademy, Moscow, professional photography, 2001

PhD studies (2012 - ), BA School of Business and Finance, Riga
MBA (1999-2003), Riga Business School
BSC (1996-1999), University of Latvia

2016 personal exhibition #slowliving, Cēsis, Latvia
2014 personal exhibition Postcards from Childhood, Riga, Latvia
2009 personal exhibition 39 hands and bamboo birch, Riga, Latvia