Natasha Lozinskaya is a documentary photographer, photo artist, and journalist. Her projects explore social themes, the environmental and anthropological context of the Russian hinterland, aspects of national identity, archetypes, and the folkloric and cultural characteristics of various Russian regions. She also works with poetry, fiction texts and photo books.
Her projects have been published in Russian and foreign magazines. As a photographer and journalist, she collaborates with several Russian independent media. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, international workshops and master classes, is a finalist for Charta Award 2025, POY Asia 2023, Blurring the Lines 2023, PhotoArtDoc'24, and other competitions, and a nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025.
Education
2026 — Laboratory for artists “On happiness and catastrophe” with Alina Kugush
2025 — FotoDepartament, St.-Petersburg
2024 — Polezreniya, photo school
2023 — Laboratory of the resident type with the artist Vasily Kononov-Gredin. Kirov, Russia
2022 — Danish School of Media and Journalism workshop “Transit Istanbul” with Mads Nissen and Mads Greve. Istanbul, Turkey
2022 — Canon Student Development Programme. Girona, Spain
2022 — photojournalism workshop by Andrei Polikanov “Beyond Photojournalism”. Samara, Russia
2021 — educational laboratory of the HYDRA project. St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 — Danila Tkachenko’s art photography educational workshop. Photo festival “Foton”. Kaliningrad, Russia
2020-2022 — Academy of documentary and art photography “Fotografika”, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2006-2011 — Literary Institute named after Gorky, faculty of poetry, Moscow, Russia
Publications
“Yogurt magazine”, “F-Stop”, “see-zeen”, “Blurring the Lines”, “PRIVATE” magazine, “Dodho Magazine”, “Colta”, “Zapovednik”, “Takie dela”, “Discours”
Collections
FotoDepartament, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Awards
2025 — Charta Award (short list)
2025 — nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025
2024 — PhotoArtDoc Festival (winner)
2023 — “Blurring the Lines” (winner)
2023 — “Women Photograph Grant 2023” (finalist)
2023 — “Pictures of the Year Asia 2023” (finalist in category “Cultural Practices”)
2021 — “Young photographers of Russia — 2021” (finalist)
Selected exhibitions
2026 — solo exhibition “Treasure Trove”. “Open You Gallery”, St. Petersburg
2025 — II Chuvash biennale of contemporary art. Cheboksary, Russia
2025 — Contacts & Connections exhibition. Rome, Italy
2024 — “PhotoArtDoc’24” photo festival. Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 — “No time”, cultural and exhibition center “Tower”, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
2022 — “12/25”, “Zerno” gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 — “Fathers” (curator Liza Svetlova), “Zerno” gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Selected artist talks, teaching
2026 — lecturer in the course “Texts in Photographic Practice. ” Academy “Fotografika”, online
2025 — public discussion “Women in Photography. ” French Institute, St. Petersburg