photography
She was born in 1980 in Chervonohrad, Lviv region,
Ukraine. Elena studied economics and received her
master`s degree in Volyn State University in Ukraine
before she turned to photography. In an auto-
didactic way, she developed her own unique vision
on Ukrainian visual culture.
Elena comes to photography in 2012, living in Lviv
and joining 5×5 Dzyga art community. In her artistic
practice, Elena is concerned with questioning religion,
tradition, the construction of history and the
consequences of soviet colonial pasts.
She uses photography as a tool for playing with
facts and beliefs, mixing documentary, staging,
computer editing and handcrafting into her unique
and emotional visual language.