Aesthetic Hunters was created as a space for artistic exploration.
I launched it in 2018 and spent the next five years developing and leading it as an original international educational program.
Its methodology drew on both my multidisciplinary artistic practice and six years of rigorous academic training at the University of Culture and Arts, where I earned my Master of Arts in Graphic Design.
Rather than teaching photography as a purely technical skill, I built the program around artistic inquiry: both inward and outward.
Participants turned the lens toward their identities, emotions, values, and personal experiences, and then toward the people, spaces, objects, and often-unnoticed details of the world around them.
Through photography, video, collage, and other visual experiments, they learned to translate ideas into images, build visual narratives, and develop their own artistic language.
The focus was never on expensive equipment or technical perfection. Most Hunters worked with smartphones, learning to create with what was already available and to trust their own way of seeing.
Selected works were later brought together in curated virtual exhibitions, transforming each season into both an individual artistic journey and a collective portrait of how differently we experience the world.
Watch Past Exhibitions
Curated by Victoria Lisina.
June, 2021
Curated by Victoria Lisina.
Jury members: Anastasia Blackman, Viktoriia Margolina, Nina Lunegova.
November, 2021
Curated by Victoria Lisina.
Jury members: Anastasia Blackman, Karina Poltavtseva, Viktoriia Margolina, Maria Goltsvard.
June, 2022