Natasha Yankelevich

I am a photographer and designer from Moscow, working in the genre of staged photography, creating projects about people and stories. Each of my series is a version of what life could be like if I were a different person like a traveler, a re-enactor, a historian at Cairo University, a representative of the Miao people around Luang Prabang, or the owner of a baroque mansion in 19th century London.

A photographer can look behind closed doors and encounter other cultures and professions. So in my shoots I immerse myself in a whole spectre of themes with their accents, aesthetics and meanings. I try everything that attracts me and seems to be a parallel universe.

Topics that invariably excite me:
- renaissance aesthetics, renaissance person (universal human being);
- ethnography, cultural peculiarities, the history of the region;
- fashion, the effect of clothing on the individual (functionally and aesthetically);
- folkloristics and the structure of fairy tales;
- societies and social institutions (bygone and contemporary) with their distinctive features and identities;
- charisma and charismatic personalities (past and present);
- science and technology.

2018-2019 British School of Art & Design
2005-2011 University of Tourism & Service, Graphic Design

2017 Zdes na Taganke Gallery, Moscow
2018 Zdes na Taganke Gallery, Moscow
2019 Revolt Center, Moscow
2023 Chudo contemporary art center, Kursk
2023 Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow