Ekaterina (Kate)
Tsurkina-Appina
art photographer
based in Winnipeg, MB
Canada
biography
Ekaterina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1983. Almost at the age of 18, she moved with her parents to Moscow. In the capital of Russia she had passed an unusual contrasting path from Specialist to Head of Financial Departments of huge companies, further a career from a Wardrobe Costumer to Costume Designer/Stylist in Film Productions and Circus.
All her life Ekaterina is trying to find her own way, to understand her destiny and value to the world as a person. During this period she was also looking herself as the Chef, Florist Designer, Personal Stylist, Salesperson, Event Organizer. She appreciates every step and experience gained, forming her own characteristics and style with such contrasting features.
It was only after moving to Canada with her husband 2 years ago, when she decided to buy a camera and start trying to take pictures, studying a lot of materials and directions. The shooting vectors also contrast, from Documentary, Reportage, to Photographic Art samples with the play of light, colours, lines, as a real impressionist artist, and somewhere surrealist. Ekaterina makes just her first steps in Photography, although she is trying to observe and capture her pictures from Nature, Still Life, Wildlife, Construction, to Portraits of people of all ages, interests, in different directions, ideologies, representations, single or group.
artist statement
My subject matter is a capturing of this world’s beauty, drawing with a camera, feelings, intuition, different knowledge, some preparation. Whether it is a traditional portrait, design photography, portrait of the flower in the rays or an ordinary pumpkin in surreal representation.I use enough standard methods and materials, any sources of light, adore portable flash. My passion is juggling colours, textures, textiles, reflective surfaces to catch attractive movement and easy breathing, making the lines dance and sing.
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2024 Art School Natalia Jukova and Anna Grazhdankina
2023 Creative school Anna Maslova
2023 Ekaterina picked up the camera first time and began to study the Photography with the main Russian teachers
2022 Ekaterina moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2021 — 2022 Ostankino school — Imagemaker and Stylist
2016 — 2022 Career growth and development in the Costume Departments at the FilmProductions and at the Main Moscow Circus with the best Russian teams
2006 — 2015 Career growth and development in the Finance Departments of three Giant Russian Companies
2008 — 2013 Ekaterina has been learning a lot about Flamenco Culture, learning the dance with the best Spanish artists in Spain, and organizing master classes and concert in Moscow
2001 — 2006 Russian State Institute of Intellectual Property, Management organization, Moscow
2001 Ekaterina moved to Moscow, Russia
1983 Ekaterina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
photography AWARDS
Dec 2024 Exhibition from FotoNostrum and Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers 2024 in Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Editors’ Pick in Black and White Photography at the Lensculture — 2 Singles
2024 Nominee at the 17-th Annual International Color awards — Portrait Self Portrait (1 Single)
2024 Honorable Mention at the 22d edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers 2024 — Self Portrait (3 Singles) and Women seen by Women (3 Singles)
2024 Editors’ Pick in Portrait 2024 at the Lensculture — 6 Singles
2023 Editors’ Pick in Art Portrait at the Lensculture — 1 Single
2023 Honorable Mention at the Tokyo International Foto Award 2023 Night Photography Portrait (Series) and Fine Art Portrait (1 Single)
contacts Ekaterina Tsurkina-Appina
+12049306629
Ekaterina.tsapp.photo@gmail.com
https://ekaterinatsurkinaappina.com