Funeral dress

This project is about an elderly woman from Russia affected by cancer. For several years she had been struggling her disease. She received treatment in hospitals, got several courses of chemotherapy, went to church, visited witchdoctors, used folk cures. She tried everything and believed in her recovery.

  • Kristina Syrchikova
    Photographer
  • Genres:
    People, documentary, portrait, daily life
  • Date Taken:
    April 16, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Student Project:
    No
  • New Talents, organised by Belgrade Photo Month
    Belgrade
    March 3, 2016
    shortlisted
  • ND Awards 2015

    honorable mention
  • Efremov Report Photography Competition
    Russia
    Federal reportage nomination (second place)
  • International festival of photography “Photoparade in Uglich”
    Russia
    August 8, 2015
    winner of portfolio review
Artist Biography

base location: Samara, Russia
born 25.07.1992

Exhibitions and screens (selected)
2016 Invasion, PhotoVisa, Typography Cultural Center, Krasnodar, Russia
2016 Slideluck Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland (screen)
2016 The Kolga Photo Award, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 Micro Slideluck Graz, Graz, Austria (screen)
2016 Third Documentary Photography Days, Photography Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey (screen)
2016 Evolution of sight. 1991-2016, Photobiennale 2016, Central exhibition hall Manege, Moscow (screen)
2015 ESPY award, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Great Britain (screen)
2015 The Baltic Photo Biennale, Photomania, Kalinigrad, Russia
2015 Funeral dress, solo exhibition in the framework of International festival of photography "Photoparade in Uglich", Uglich, Russia
2015 Young man in the 21st century, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 The 5th World Biennial of Student Photography, Novi Sad, Serbia
2015 Portrait Salon 2015, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, Great Britain
2015 Young photographers of Russia-2015, Pushchino, Russia
2015 SLIDELUCK Manila II, Quezon City, Philippines (screen)
2014 PhotoVisa, Krasnodar, Russia
2014 Young photographers of Russia-2014, Plyos, Russia
2014 The third museum photobiennale of contemporary photography, The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 Young photographers of Russia, Vilnius Gallery of Photograhy, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Without barriers, FotoSoyuz Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013 Alignment on Samara, Gallery “Novoe prostranstvo”, Samara, Russia
2013 Polar perspective, Norilsk, Russia
2013 Three views, Museum of Art Nouveau, Samara, Russia
2013 Young photographers of Russia-2013, Plyos, Russia

Awards (selected)
2016 XV Youth Delphic Games Russia, Gold Medal
2016 The Kolga Photo Award, organised by Kolga Tbilisi Award, Georgia, Shortlisted
2016 New Talents, organised by Belgrade Photo Month, Serbia, Shortlisted
2016 ND Awards, Editorial - Daily Life, Honorable mention
2016 ND Awards, Fine Art - Conceptual, Honorable mention
2015 XIV Youth Delphic Games Russia, Gold Medal
2015 X Open Youth Delphic Games of the CIS Member States, Gold Medal
2015 Efremov Report Photography Competition, Federal reportage nomination, 2 place
2015 MIFA Photo Awards 2015, Editorial-Photo Essay, Honorable Mention
2015 ND Awards, Photojournalism / Story, Honorable mention
2015 ESPY Photography Award, Great Britain, Shortlisted
2014 Young photographers of Russia-2014, Awardee
2014 XIII Youth Delphic Games Russia, Gold Medal
2014 I Open Youth European Delphic Games, Gold Medal
2013 State grate in the arts and culture for creative projects
2013 Young photographers of Russia-2013, Awardee
2013 XII Youth Delphic Games Russia, Gold Medal
2013 VIII Open Youth Delphic Games of the CIS Member States, Gold Medal
2013 Polar Perspective-2013, Nominations “People” and “City”, Awardee
2012 Russian photo contest “Youth of Russia-2012”, Grand Prix

Publications
Musee Magazine (USA), Der Greif, Takie Dela (Russia), F-Stop Magazine, COLTA.RU (Russia), Positive Magazine, Foto&video (Russia), Science and Life (Russia), Russian reporter, Lenta.ru, Expert Online, Dodho Magazine, RBK (Russia), The Eros Magazine, PERFORMANCE, Splash & Grab, Bird In Flight, Plateform magazine, DOT photozine, FOG (Germany), IM Magazine.

Membership
since 2012 The Russian Union of Art Photographers

Education
2014-2015 FotoDepartament. Institute — Documentary photography and photojournalism, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2009-2015 Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering — Information Systems and Technology, Samara, Russia
2010-2014 Academy for Photography, Samara, Russia

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