"Abstract Red Fantasy" Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

My name is Galina Shichenko. Welcome to my page. I was born in Uzbekistan and am currently living in Qatar.

I grew up in a family of photographers. My earliest memory of it is standing in the bathroom as a child, watching my mother develop film in the dark. Red light, chemicals, an image slowly appearing on paper. I never planned to make photography my life. But it found me.

I’ve been shooting for over fifteen years, across many genres: conceptual, portrait, documentary, architecture. I graduated from the Tashkent House of Photography and have won international competitions. These days I work mostly with film, long exposure, double exposure, slow shutter. I’m drawn to processes where something unexpected can still happen.

Photography for me is a way of being curious about the world. People, light, cultures, angles I haven’t seen before. And at the same time it’s deeply personal, almost like a diary. Every image carries something of where I was and what I felt when I made it. But I never want it to stay only mine. I make it hoping that whoever looks at it finds something of their own there too.

Painting has been with me since childhood as well. My mother is an artist, and I studied it seriously. Then I stepped away for a long time. I came back to it when I was pregnant with my daughter. Something pulled me back, and I realized I had things to say that only paint could carry. My long-held dream is to bring photography and painting together, and that’s the direction I’m heading.

I hope something here resonates with you.