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EXHIBITION
by
OlgaVolodina
NOVEMBER 20-27, 2014
“I don’t stick to a certain style in my art.
I don’t want to be labeled as a fashion or nude art photographer.
Life is impermanent and subject to constant change
and so is my work”
Olga Volodina
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Olga Volodina is a Russian-born photo artist currently
residing in Bangkok. Back in the day she started her
professional career as a fashion art photographer in Moscow.
Olga is the author of several social and art photo projects.
Her works were featured on TV, in print media and exhibited in
art galleries.
Almost all of Olga’s works are focused on a human.
Character, charisma, body, beauty, behavior, relationship,
actions and mistakes, everything that we call a human life is
both the main source of inspiration for her and object of her art.
Male to Female (MTF) Classic nude photography of
transgender models in black and white.
Woman Touch, Olga Volodina’s first exhibition in Bangkok,
was a simple yet exciting way to express the beauty of a
nude female body through the medium of black and white
photography. MTF exhibition is a kind of sequence project
that utilize the same aesthetic of sensual mood to show
transgender bodies as an art object.
In the civilized modern world, a choice of sexual orientation is
the right of every human. People learn how to live among the
variety of opinions, attitudes and sexual preferences.
In general we have to learn tolerance.
As long as transgenders have been existing artists and
photographers mostly use this phenomenon in art to provoke
or shock their audience with documental realism often
underlined with some strong social meanings.
Photographer Olga Volodina chose another way.
She prefered the style of classic black & white nude
photography that doesn’t attract with its play of colors and
devoid of any social context . Here attention to composition,
lighting and the beauty of a not-so-obvious-yet human body
is more important. There are just calm and sensual nude
pictures shot the same way as classic nude female
photography.
It lets a viewer to keep attention undistracted
and see the beauty of a transgender body the same way as a
male or female naked body.
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