Katerina Belkina

Katerina Belkina is a Russian painter and photographer born in 1974, in Samara, Russia. Belkina grew up in a family of artists. In 1989 she studied at the School of Art and in the academy of art of Petrow-Vodkin in Samara. From 1994 to 1999 she worked at the edition house Fedorow in Samara. In 2000, she began studying at the School of photography Michael-Musorin in her hometown until 2002. At the same time she worked as a computer graphic designer on a Russian television channel. She is also a member of the union of Russian photographers.

Belkina's photographic work is strongly influenced by painting and focuses entirely on portraits. In recent years she has mainly devoted herself to the creation of self-portraits. Through her work, she redefines the aesthetics of women in the 21st century. She retouches digitally many of her photographs to give them the appearance of paintings.

Her work has been the object of numerous awards and has been exhibited all over the world, in Russia, France, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, China, Germany, Korea and Belgium.