art studio in Kyiv

National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. In 2014, I discovered the Academy of Painting. I immediately fell in love with it. The huge windows in the workshops. The easels. The smell of oil paint everywhere. Students with paint-stained fingertips. Sculptures. Talking about art... I remember thinking "there's no better place to take pictures". From that day on, I would bring models to the academy, slip into the workshops and take pictures on film.The main idea was that everything would be as natural as possible. No makeup, no staging. Just natural light and natural beauty. I chose film on purpose. To make the photos look like paintings. In many of the photos I tried to achieve a blur ef...View all