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 ”