КАТЕРИНА БОДРУНОВА

source: modernartetc

Katerina is a multiple award winning photographer who has won some of photography’s most prestigious prizes such as the Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) (2011), and Pollux Awards 2011, London, UK, amongst others. The jury selected PX3 2011’s winners from thousands of photography entries from over 85 countries. Bodrunova also received First Prize in the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Colour Contest and in Pollux Awards 2011 in category of Fine Art.

In her own words, the photographer does not feel defined by reality but likes to create her own reality, unfettered by the rules and boundaries of the natural world, but inspired by travel, film, study, art and life. Once an idea is conceived, she imagines how to film it. Her works are the result of challenging, meticulous staging in which the human art subject is plunged into water, bodies are hooked onto wires, suspended in motion, or flying on trees. “When I (create), it’s like I am drawing, with people…human bodies could be art or as themselves…”. She explains, “Sometimes we change the space around us to fit our ideas and sometimes space, place, or time dictates their rules. We can fight or we can embrace, the choice is ours.”

Her work has a beautiful ethereal dreamlike quality, informed by Surrealism and art and invites us not only to think about our physical and social world but also to take that world into extraordinary dimensions.

A writer and fellow photographer, Peter Maeck said: “In all her pictures there is a bursting sense of robust, fluid motion but also the unmistakable sensation of being trapped in place: it’s the kinetic at war with (or perhaps in concert with?) the static. The result is a stupendous visual, emotional, and physical state of high dramatic tension.”

She has exhibited in Europe and the USA and her photography appears in private collections across France, Italy, USA, Russia and Germany.
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source: worldphotoorg

Artist Katerina Bodrunova began her career in 2009 as a self-educated photographer.
Since then, she has exhibited her photography in several solo exhibitions throughout Moscow, has been published in art magazines and books (“Satellite Voices”, “Blink”, “Katalog”, “My Own Wilderness” book, WPGA book “Colour, colour, colour”, “One Life Photos” book and others), and has received numerous awards and honors from prestigious photographic competitions.

Most recently, Bodrunova exhibited her photography in Art Paris 2011 as well as Barcelona Showcase 2011. She was the recipient of four PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris, 2011 competition awards including: Gold in the category of Book Proposal for her photograph, Surrealism, Gold in the category of Book Proposal/People for her photograph, Surrealism, Gold in the category of Advertising for her photograph, Underwater Dreams, and Silver in the category of Fine Art for her photograph, Life.Despite. The jury selected PX3 2011’s winners from thousands of photography entries from over 85 countries. Bodrunova also received First Prize in the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Colour Contest and in Pollux Awards 2011 in category of Fine Art. In addition, her photography was selected for the The Borges Cultural Center Exhibition which will take place this January and February in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also January and February 2012 her works have been chosen for “The 2012 Art Inter/National Exhibition” in Pittsburg, USA. Her photography appears in private collections across France, Italy, USA, and Germany.