Alyona Nikolaeva, born in 97, is an artist\photographer based in Otranto. Born and raised in Yekaterinburg, an industrial city in Russia, she has always been influenced by architectural brutalism, post-punk, industrial, new-wave music, soviet cartoons and the films of David Fincher, Nicolas Winding Refn and David Lynch. She is currently involved in a black and white analogue and digital photography project in which the delicacy of the female figure is contextualised in dissonant and dreamlike environments.