In this series, photography moves closer to painting. Using Harman Switch Azure film, intense colour and optical blur, the artist treats the photographic image as a painterly surface. These techniques shift the focus away from photography as documentation and towards the experience of the image itself — its colour, light, movement and materiality. The figures seem to dissolve into their surroundings, becoming less like individual subjects and more like fleeting, almost ghostly forms, suspended somewhere between reality, memory and dream.
Photographs taken during the artistic residency at the HSE Art & Design School x Nanlite Light Photography Laboratory for the 2026 Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP).Sponsored by @nanlite_global Shot at @hsedesign Setup and support by @silasvetaLecturer and Nanlite representative: @xulong.zhang Head coordinator: @alisaa_a Head of collaboration: Irina Chmyreva Special thanks: Liu Xiaoxia
Photo Maria Elyutina Art direction & Production @alisaa_a @be_step Makeup, hair @emmashrayber Model 1 @amonika.barkhan Model 2 @kokoreva_mar1a Design Look 1 @be_step Design Look 2 @be_step Look 3 @aleksandra.ligay Look 4 @ilyashugaev
