Uldus Bakhtiozina
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Photo-based artist from Russia. [[1]] Uldus was born in 1986 in Saint-Petersburg, [Russia] (former Leningrad city, USSR), in a family with mixed religions and nationalities (muslim tatar [[2]] father, [[3]] christian half ukrainian mother, and jewish step-sister). Bakhtiozina considers herself as a "child of rebuilding time" [[[4]]] in russia, with open minds and free from stereotypes. Uldus started her way from ironic self-portraits, while she was studying in London, at University of Arts ([[5]]), Central Saint Martins and London College of Communications. Though, she has received much influence on her art from the first degree in politics, which Uldus gained in Russia at West-North Academy of public administration. National brackets, created by russian society and everyday rejection to accept someone different had motivated Uldus to leave Russia when she was 21 years old and started a new life in London. She spent abroad 5 years in total, 3 years in England and 2 years in Asia (India, Nepal, Indonesia, Hong-Kong). Those travels gave to Bakhtiozina wider perception of life, helped to open to the world her vision, since she got the feeling that being different is much better, than hide it and faking the invisibility. Nowadays Uldus working in her mother land, there she has opened her studio of visual arts. She works with young generation of russians, telling their stories in her art photography. Bakhtiozina's works are mixed of real stories and art vision, she creates photography with full respect to an aesthetic, focusing on balancing meaningful message and beauty. Bakhtiozina challenges gender and cultural norms with humor and magic, creating a fairytale world for the viewer. Her works represent young generation of Russians today. In 2014 Uldus became first russian speaker in a history of TED [[6]], talking at Ted conference in Vancouver, Canada about her photo project Desperate Romantics. (Uldus's TALK was published in september 2014 on TED.com channel) from series Desperate romantics
more of Uldus works can be seen at her site www.uldus.com
Uldus also spoke at [CDI] conference in Mexico, as a finalist of Gifted Citizen Prize. In October 2014 Uldus was named one of the strongest women 2014 by BBC [[7]] and took part in BBC debates and TV program 100 women 100 women, there her works was shown published at BBC channel. Uldus's photography were published in Vogue Italy, Aesthetica Magazine, C-41 Magazine and many others international publishers. Bakhtiozina's works widely exhibited in Russia, England, Berlin, Hong-Kong, Singapore and Milan.
References
- TED.com
- BBC .com
- uldus.com