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ABOUT
“What does it mean to be a good person?” asks Elizaveta Porodina. “How do kindness and dignity express themselves in human behaviour?” These questions guide her thinking and inform her practice, but her work doesn’t seek to answer them explicitly. Instead, it suggests a different kind of knowing: one that is cerebral, surreal, and sublime in its strangeness.
Porodina was born in Moscow and moved to Germany with her family as a teenager. Caught between languages, locations, and ways of being, she turned to art as a medium for understanding the world around her. She went on to study psychology, hoping to map the many territories of feeling, but found the practice offered distance rather than connection or expression. Photography returned her to something more essential, something that reminded her of where she belonged. “This is where my homeland is,” she says. “My native land is imagery.”
Photographer: Elizaveta Porodina @ Concrete
Stylist: Gabriella Norberg
Model: Viktoria Wirs @ Women Management Paris @ Avant Models
Makeup Artist: Lauren Reynolds @ Bryant Artists
Hair Stylist: Yumiko Hikage @ CLM
Nail Artist: Fanny Wonyu
Set Designer: Andrea Cellerino @ STREETERS
Lighting: : Josef Beyer
Photo Assistants: Valentine Lacour, Jean-Romain Pac
Stylist Assistant: Nadia Gil
Set Assistants: Arianna Pilone, Mehdy Briand
Producer: Victoria Mancisidor @ Concrete
Editor-in-Chief: Sasha Kovaleva
