I am a photographer and currently a student pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. I am fascinated by themes such as the origin of time, the creation and destiny of the universe, and the profound emotions of human beings. Through my photography, I explore social, geopolitical, and environmental issues. I also have a deep love for geography, history, and philosophy, and I enjoy studying maps and graphics. Many of my projects focus on Russia and my homeland, Galicia.
My work has been published by National Geographic, Geo, Stern, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times, Der Spiegel, L’Espresso, D-Repubblica, The British Journal of Photography, and Paris Match. It has been exhibited at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Real Jardín Botánico and Canal Isabel II during PhotoEspaña in Madrid, as well as the Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Over the years, my work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including two Pictures of the Year International awards, the Sony World Photography Awards, the First Prize of the Zeke Awards, the First Prize of the Foto Slovo Awards, the First Prize of the Moscow International Photo Awards, the First Prize of Premio Galicia de Fotografía Contemporánea, the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award, the PH Museum Grant, the PX3 Paris Photo Awards, and the Estação Imagem Mora Award.
I have taken several masterclasses with photographers and photo editors such as Donovan Wylie, Jonas Bendiksen, Alex Webb, Sarah Leen, and Magdalena Herrera. I have also participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop and the New York Times Portfolio Review.
In 2020, I suffered a back injury that profoundly affected my life. Since then, my perspective as a photographer has shifted. I began Beyond the Lake, a project about Galicia, in which I seek to explore, from a metaphorical perspective, the atmosphere and the issues of my homeland: nostalgia, abandonment, social rejection, exclusion, and dualities such as oppression and domination.
For The Shining Land series, I traveled for four months over the course of four years (2017–2020) to remote regions of the Russian Far East. During these journeys, I documented the lives of towns defined by isolation and extreme weather conditions. My series World’s Place Apart is a long-term project about a community that chose to live outside society. I began it in 2005, and it remains ongoing. What started as a story about the place and its people has evolved into a reflection on my own growth as a photographer.
For more than a decade, I have combined these and other personal projects with my work for photo agencies. During that time, I covered events such as the tragedy in the Lampedusa Sea, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, the refugee exodus from the Middle East, and the Costa Concordia disaster. I have also covered spot news, current affairs, and sports, produced editorial portraits, and explored many other areas of photography. These reports have been published in outlets around the world.
In my free time, I enjoy reading—particularly Russian and Eastern literature—and creating abstract oil paintings. I am also deeply inspired by the universe of Tarkovsky and am an avid fan of the progressive metal band Tool.
