Ekaterina Tsurkina-Appina

I try to create something that brings me closer to myself. I do not create and try not to support certain trends, styles, vectors of vision. As much as possible, of course, because everything has been created for a long time, and one flows from the other into the third. But each person is more unique, because only he/she/they knows how to feel, based on their own accumulated potential, choose strategies and create something especial. I erase all restrictions, comparisons, my own ideas, expectations, imposed boundaries, value judgments, standards, racing processes. All of that hurts and destroys me as a person. I really want us all to listen sincerely to ourselves and appreciate ourselves with our hearts and souls, at least try to learn listening and perceive with our sacred centers. Although it is not so easy. And I am learning this with you.

In order, not to lose myself and throw off the imposed, I go into my inner depths, working and experimenting with self-portraits, exploring the vector of my thoughts and feelings. I run away closer to nature, listening, touching and integrating our interaction with it into photographs. And I also go into distortions, exaggerating worlds, trying to find that very personal thing, those threads...

2023-2025  Art Photo Schools of Anna Maslova, Anna Grazhdankina, Natalie Zhukova and others
2021-2022  Ostankino school, Stylist / Imagemaker
2001-2006  Russian State Institute of Intellectual Property

2024  Exhibition from FotoNostrum and Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers 2024 in Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain