My name is Arina Gusakovskaya. I was born in Belarus and had been living there until I graduated from university. Now I live in Tbilisi. I have been into photography since 2016. My journey started with several attempts using a Soviet film camera, Zenit.
During my university studies, I realised that my favourite works have always fallen into the street photography genre - capturing candid social reality that is so impressive to shoot. It has become addictive!
Since 2020, my art started to transform, finding and developing its own voice.
I immersed myself in a visual exploration of the surroundings in order to find wholeness, meaning, and structure in the chaos of life.
For me, street photography represents a quest for poetic coincidences across diverse spaces: natural, architectural, social, and cultural. I am attracted to surreal and metaphorical motifs, when the ordinary in my eyes acquires something profound, imaginary, fabulous, or intimate.
