Hi! I’m karina.
Russian-speaking Latvian. Lived in Ireland for 21 years. Moved to Bali for sunshine.
I feel like I’ve come full circle in my photography journey, arriving at a place where everything finally feels right. Over the past 17 years, no matter the genre I explored, something always felt off. Realness. Or the lack of it. So, I began peeling away the layers of artifice in my work, one by one.
Compositing. Liquify. Flowing dresses. Flower crowns. Airbrushing, Full-on makeup. Clothes. Posing.
I got rid of everything because I reached a profound realisation: there’s nothing more beautiful than real, raw, unfiltered life.
You’ll still find traces of my earlier work on this website, work I hold close to my heart. But it’s no longer the kind of photography I want to create.
Now, I want to document life. My own. My family’s. My friends’. I want to tell real stories about real people.
P.S. I might change my mind later ;)
Contact me.
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BASED IN BALI. CAPTURING STORIES WORLDWIDE.