Elina Akselrud

I see images in my mind and crave making them real.

I have been working in the genre of artistic portrait and travel/landscape since 2008. However, in 2016 I have made a decision to concentrate on the genre of fine art photography, because I felt that it became much closer to me. My goal is to bring my own imagination and ideas of surrealistic fairy tales, dreams, and my personal alternative reality to life.

I studied the genre of Fine Art Photography with Anka Zhuravleva, as well as completed online courses with Jennifer Thoreson, Sue Bryce, Lara Jade, Renee Robyn, and Brooke Shaden.

I hold degrees in professional piano performance (classical) from Mannes School of Music (BM'12, New York, USA), New England Conservatory (MM'14, Boston, USA), Hochschule Luzern - Musik (MA'18, Lucerne, Switzerland), Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Posgraduate Certificate'18, Florence, Italy)

Hôtel Chopin Grands-Boulevards Paris (France) hosts a permanent exhibition of my still life works on a theme of Chopin since 2018.

In 2020 my works were digitally featured in GuruShots group exhibitions in Portugal, Sweden, Australia, and Canada, as well as at Colors of Humanity Art Gallery in Everett, PA, USA. Printed works were exhibited during the 10x10x10 Tieton in WA, USA and Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece.