{"id":3142,"date":"2019-11-25T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/?page_id=3142"},"modified":"2019-11-25T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:09:43","slug":"interview-with-elena-anosova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/en\/blog\/interview-with-elena-anosova\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Elena Anosova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interview with<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elena Anosova<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>1st Prize in 2016<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Elena Anosova is a documentary photographer based near Lake Baikal, Russia. The solitude of this remote location is the inspiration for many of Elenas works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The main themes I work with are: isolation and closed social groups.&nbsp;Another reason why I choose these subjects comes from my personal background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get into photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, I&nbsp;started studying documentary photography at Rodchenko Photography and Multimedia School in Moscow and graduated in 2016. Before then I worked with paintings and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which contemporary photographers inspire you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It depends on&nbsp;time. Sophie Calle &#8211; I respect her work a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please tell us a bit about your series \u201eSection\u201c.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my first project, I photographed women\u2013prisoners in Siberia. When I was 12, I spent more than 3 years in a closed boarding school. That is why I have decided to work with closed institutions. I spend a year and a half on this project. It took 8 months to get permissions and more than 2,5 months I was shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I photographed newcomers and mature prisoners. I worked only with women. And made near 200 portraits. I was interested in the&nbsp;important&nbsp;process of deformation of personality that no matter what, happens in a closed institution. We&nbsp;don\u2019t think about it, but&nbsp;there &#8211; all the time &#8211; no&nbsp;privacy and&nbsp;safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4-420x300.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4-744x531.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portraits-hellerau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/764N_4-600x428.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>From &#8220;Section&#8221; by Elena Anosova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In such places you cannot stay alone, you are all the time under surveillance. You have to follow not only official rules&nbsp;but also informal protocols. Outside these walls, in our everyday life, you can cover yourself with a blanket and hide, feeling safety. But in the bedroom where another 50 people live, everyone can remove your blanket just to have a look at the color of your underwear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our society stigmatizes everything connected with the prison. But by staying in jail my characters don&#8217;t stop to be mothers, sisters, teachers, loved ones, grandparents, or just cute girls or personalities. Often if they don&#8217;t receive support, upon their release, in most of the cases they return to prison. That&#8217;s why I started with the portraits of\u00a0young girls\u00a0special photographed in a different uniform and for the first time, we cannot understand who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sequence of my work goes from youth to old age, from the color to the greyness, making deformation more obvious with each frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about Elena Anosova and her award winning series here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter is-style-default\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/anosova.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elenas website<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Participate until the 25th of November:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter is-style-default\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/contests.picter.com\/portraits-hellerau-photography-award-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competition 2020<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nInterview with Elena Anosova 1st Prize in 2016 Elena Anosova is a documentary photographer based near Lake Baikal, Russia. 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