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It is a markedly manual and handcrafted working process, in which anonymous, royalty-free images found on the internet are printed, cut out, assembled, mounted and brought into the threedimensional, only to return to two-dimensions once they have been photographed. Indeed, in the Landscape Sublime photographs, perspective breaks down into a language that could be called cubist, geometric shapes and planes of colour accumulate and follow one after another, materials are superimposed in the visual collages that create these landscapes, categorised by the author according to their themes: mountains, storms, forests, cliffs, lightning, and so on.

As she herself points out, the influence of Russian avant-garde painters, including Natalia Goncharova and Liubov Popova, has been very important in her approach to the representation of nature and its manifestations1. After moving to the United States in 2008 to continue her education there, she completed a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Art Studies at Bradley University, in 2011.įrom her first projects, Breakfasts and Landscape Sublime -a series that began in 2013 and is still ongoing- it is clear that for Samoylova the composition of images is meticulously calculated, and collage and the superimposition of elements are fundamental to the result she is looking for. The project, undertaken in various cities around the world, is a visual study of the ever-closer integration between the photographic image and the urban environment.Īnastasia Samoylova was born in 1984 in Moscow, where she completed a Master’s degree in Environmental Design at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

From February 16 to May 14, 2023, the winning project from the 1st edition of the KBr Photo Award will be on display at the KBr Barcelona Photography Center: the work of the photograper Anastasia Samoylova.

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