ARTIST'S BODY - VICTORIA USHKANOVA
Author LINDA ZHENGOVÁ
Artist VICTORIA USHKANOVA
Instagram @victoria_ushkanova
Website victoriaushkanova.com
Victoria Ushkanova (Russia) is an autodidact photographer and media artist currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her main focus is portrait and fashion photography. In her project ‘Artist’s Body’, she explores the acceptance of the human body in the form of a video performance which later extends to her photographs.
Her photographic oeuvre presents portraits of adolescents where her models are either from modelling agencies or sometimes complete strangers. With a clear talent for direction, Ushkanova always takes many pictures until she reaches the right moment and designates a photograph to be “the one”. Characterised with sharpness, her portraits are shot on a large format analogue camera, allowing for an incredible range of colour reproduction and sense of depth.