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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