Mike Makarenko

My photographic practice is a way of engaging with the invisible – with psychological landscapes, archetypal symbols and emotional residues that exist just beneath the surface of reality.

I am an interior and still life photographer by training, and now I explore the intersection of external structure and internal chaos. My recent works – be they black and white binocular abstractions or symbolic compositions – serve as meditations on the self, memory and the need to find meaning in a fragmented world.

Influenced by Jungian psychology, I view photography as a process of individuation: an ongoing dialogue with the Shadow, the Anima, the child and the unknown. I often work with found objects, ambiguous spaces and dreamlike perspectives – not to document, but to awaken.

Based between Georgia and Serbia, I remain committed to the poetics of vision and the quiet transformation that occurs when the unconscious becomes visible.

Higher education in social psychology