Born 1988 in Yaroslavl, Russia.
Ksenia is based between Berlin and Moscow where she works as a documentary photographer on her own projects and commissioned assignments. She has a background in International Economics which she studied in Russia and Holland. In 2015 she pursued a Degree in Photography from a University of Applied Science in Bielefeld, Germany.
In 2011, I packed my life into a suitcase and left my hometown, my country. I traded the prospect of a “good†career, friends, and family in order to pursue my dream. The dream of eternal love, the dream of a perfect job which would allow me to find myself, the dream of possibilities and people with perspectives similar to mine.
During recent travels in my native Russia, I met more and more young people who - like me - dream of something bigger, moving from the province to the big city, turning their ideas into reality - people who have not given up. We are the first generation of young people who was not born during the Soviet Union and who has now grown up and takes on responsibility. A generation without food stamps and travel bans, but with global networking and decent education.
Many of our dreams may remain dreams. Perhaps we will understand only later that we are not as special as we thought. Regardless, we are the generation whose search for ourselves often puts us in conflict with the “system.â€
