Kristina Shakht
Photographer and Creative Director New York, USA
Kristina Shakht is a fashion photographer and creative director born 1995 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and currently based in New York. The main themes of her work are intimacy, sensuality, self-identity, and liberation. Inspired by Slavic fairy tales and mythology, she documents the female form and landscapes.
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Her approach aims at reframing the negative sexual experiences she lived through as a young woman. Kristina’s focus on a non-sexual gaze of the female body shows its figure from a woman’s perspective, creating a safe space of expression both her and her subject, depicting an imaginary new world.
Kristina worked with
i-D
AnOther
NY Times
Puss Puss
Lampoon, Office
Teeth
Hunger
Calvert
WÜL Magazine
Elle Mexico
Her photography was showcased by
Aperture Foundation and Rockefeller Center in Flag Project exhibition (NYC, USA) and also in Memories, The Essential, The Performer, The Man, and The Machine, Contrasts and Inspired by Words exhibitions, curated by LoosenArt Gallery (Rome, Italy).
Jane by The Grey Attic
The Blueprint
WRPD
Phosphenes
Lula Japan
Complex
BE-IN
Lomography
Mall.nyc
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