Ksenia Ivanova is a documentary photographer based in St Petersburg. After gaining a degree in literature, she turned to photography, where her work is focused on trauma and its effects. In her practice, Ivanova prefers to delve deeply into topics, building trusting relationships with characters throughout long-term projects. While regularly contributing to Russian charity magazine Takie Dela, she has also collaborated with publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The WSJ, GEO France, among others.
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From The Land of Soul (ongoing). This project looks at the life in the once thriving mining mountain villages of the Tkuarchal region of Abkhazia
From The Land of Soul (ongoing). This region never fully recovered after the siege during the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhaz war, and the trauma remains imprinted in people’s bodies and in the façades of the surviving buildings
From The Land of Soul (ongoing). The images of the semi-deserted places become a metaphor for the country itself, as Abkhazia is a ghost state on the world map
From The Land of Soul (ongoing). Abkhazia’s autonomy is a controversial subject in current geopolitics; it is recognised only by a handful of countries, including Russia, on which Abkhazia is economically and politically dependent
From The Land of Soul (ongoing). The trauma of war, the search for the identity during the post-Soviet era, the complex relations between nature and urban spaces all continue to define the region’s current context
From The Land of Soul (ongoing). Still, between longing for the lost past and doubting the uncertain future, life goes on here—which Ivanova captures in her project
From The Land of Soul (ongoing)
From The Land of Soul (ongoing)
