Moscow/Russia

Historian of photography; curator of photography exhibitions. Member of AICA. Currently lives in Moscow. She is a leading researcher at the National Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow and a member of the Art Education commission of the Russian Academy of Arts.
She was a member of the international editorial board of Imago magazine (2000-2011), European Photography magazine (2000-2015), guest editor of OjoDePez magazine (Spain) for a special publication on Russian photography (2006). She teaches her lecture programmes on visual communication and photography in Russian history at the Institute of Human Studies and IT and the State University of Technologies, chair of graphic book design, both in Moscow. She is a guest lecturer at the European Institute of Design in Madrid, Spain.

In 2012, she was one of five Russian and American curators selected for the main Contemporary Russian Photography programme at the FotoFest International Biennial in Houston, USA. She wrote for the FotoFest 2012 catalogue. In 2013, she was part of the Syngenta Prize committee and, in 2014, the Hasselblad Prize jury committee.
Since 2008, she has been the co-founder and art director of the PhotoVisa International Photography Festival in the Krasnodar region, Russia (www.photovisa.ru). In 2019, she received the Award for Excellence in Curating from the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.
She is the author of the Russian chapters in three volumes (1900-1939; 1940-1969 and 1970-2000) of the History of European Photography of the 20th century. She is the author and co-author of several books on the history of Russian photography; her latest book, Collection of Essays on History of Russian Photography, was published in 2016.