Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna (1986) is a Russian photo-based artist and photographer, known as the first Russian speaker in TED who documents folklore's fairy tales and challenges social stereotypes through the prism of her photographs, and one of Top 100 Women of the 2014 year according to the BBC channel.
Uldus was born in Saint Petersburg, (former Leningrad of USSR), in a family with mixed religions and nationalities Muslim Tatars father, Christian half Ukrainian mother, and Jewish step-sister. Uldus considers herself as a "child of rebuilding time" Perestroika in Russia, with open minds and free from stereotypes. At the beginning of her career she directed videos for German musician Popnoname – Anna, Change and Russian singer's Ilya Lagutenko Keta's project KETA – Clown.
Her first professional work as a photographer was a series of ironic self-portraits, while she was studying in London, at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins and London College of Communications. Though, she has received much influence on her art from the first degree in politics, which she 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).
Despite of the modern technology level, she prefers an analog camera instead of digital to catch the nature of an object, show its deepest edges and soul beneath them. For that purpose, she uses medium format camera 6x7 and 120 films Kodak and old 35 mm film Leica R3 camera. All around objects, costumes, make-up, and outfit are produced by her own to fill the story behind each photograph with her vision and imagination. That's an important part of her works to make them unique and unforgettable.
Nowadays Uldus working in her motherland, where she has opened her studio of visual arts. She works with a young generation of Russians, telling their stories in her art photography. Bakhtiozina's works are mixed of real stories and artistic vision, she creates photography with full respect to an aesthetic, focusing on balancing meaningful message and beauty. Bakhtiozina challenges to gender and cultural norms with humor and magic, creating a fairy tale world for the viewer. Her works represent the young generation of Russians today.
In 2014 Uldus became the first Russian speaker in a history of TED, talking at TED conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, about her photo project Desperate Romantics.
In April 2015 Uldus's artwork was selected and nominated in Leica + Vogue Italia with an exhibition in Milan.
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Uldus was born in Saint Petersburg, (former Leningrad of USSR), in a family with mixed religions and nationalities Muslim Tatars father, Christian half Ukrainian mother, and Jewish step-sister. Uldus considers herself as a "child of rebuilding time" Perestroika in Russia, with open minds and free from stereotypes. At the beginning of her career she directed videos for German musician Popnoname – Anna, Change and Russian singer's Ilya Lagutenko Keta's project KETA – Clown.
Her first professional work as a photographer was a series of ironic self-portraits, while she was studying in London, at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins and London College of Communications. Though, she has received much influence on her art from the first degree in politics, which she 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).
Despite of the modern technology level, she prefers an analog camera instead of digital to catch the nature of an object, show its deepest edges and soul beneath them. For that purpose, she uses medium format camera 6x7 and 120 films Kodak and old 35 mm film Leica R3 camera. All around objects, costumes, make-up, and outfit are produced by her own to fill the story behind each photograph with her vision and imagination. That's an important part of her works to make them unique and unforgettable.
Nowadays Uldus working in her motherland, where she has opened her studio of visual arts. She works with a young generation of Russians, telling their stories in her art photography. Bakhtiozina's works are mixed of real stories and artistic vision, she creates photography with full respect to an aesthetic, focusing on balancing meaningful message and beauty. Bakhtiozina challenges to gender and cultural norms with humor and magic, creating a fairy tale world for the viewer. Her works represent the young generation of Russians today.
In 2014 Uldus became the first Russian speaker in a history of TED, talking at TED conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, about her photo project Desperate Romantics.
In April 2015 Uldus's artwork was selected and nominated in Leica + Vogue Italia with an exhibition in Milan.
© 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Uldus Bakhtiozina. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Ms. Uldus Bakhtiozina at TED talk |
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| A pearl of irregular shape |
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| History divine plan |
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| Baba Yaga |
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| The Circus 17 series for Vogue |
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| The Circus 17 series for Vogue |
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| Magic of Kisel shores |
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| Masha and the Bear |
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| Milky Rivers |
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| Miss Genuine- Part of the “Miss Other World” series |
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| Olenushka and her brother Ivanushka |
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| Red Beauty– Krasna Devica |
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| Rusalka |
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| Sister |
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| Soul Of Forest |
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| from TED Talk |
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| from TED Talk |
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| The Beauty |
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| The Golden Karaoke |
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| Three Sisters |
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| Triglava |
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| Tsarevna the Frog |
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| The Circus 17 series for Vogue |
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| Vogue in Fashion exhibition |
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| Winter Face |
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