LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Yulia Naganova
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Fine Art Photographer and visual artist Yulia Naganova ' s work rejects any conventional classifications: her works are both instictive and convey a careful attention to composition and balance. Her practice is marked with freedom and expresses the potential of the combination between reminders to nature and imagination. One of the most impressive aspects of Naganova ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of combining self-expression and direct involvement with the viewers: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating artistic production.
Hello Yulia and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? Currently working as a freelance, you degreed with a Master ' s degree of Economics from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University: are there any particular experience that has influenced the way you conceive your work as an artist? In particular, what is your main interest as creative?
Hello. Firstly I would like to thank LandEscape team for the interest to my photo art. I will answer your questions and share my thoughts and plans with pleasure
Yes, I degreed with the Master’ s degree of Economics from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in fact. And I was working as an economist only for 10 months. After that I gave birth to my 2 sons, moved to London with my family in 2011 and spent the 4 next years in search of myself. I always loved to take pictures with my DSLR camera. Pictures of kids, food and landscapes a bit later. But it all was just shooting without a deep immersion into this subject. And all photos were just photos and nothing more.
The book“ Photography as …” by Aleksander Lapin – Russian photographer and founder of a photography school in Moscow, became a turning point for me. It was the first step in this direction. Approximately at the same time I found out“ Black and White Photo Magazine”