Ekaterina Bovkunova
Ekaterina was born in 1982, she lives and works in Saint Petersburg. She graduated from Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics and has a cultural studies degree. In 2015 Ekaterina was studying photography in Igor Sakharov's personal course.
In 2023 Ekaterina finished Elena Sukhoveeva's and Victor Khmelya's photography school. Then in 2024 Ekaterina entered Saint Petersburg State Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design.
Since 2024 Ekaterina has been studying documentary photography at "Photograffica".
The exhibitions Ekaterina participated in:
2024 – "Abstractio' in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the project 'Visibility"
2024 – "Flora and Fauna' in Saint Petersburg, Russia with the project "Plastic souls"
2024 – "Red Data Book' in Moscow, Russia with the project 'Plastic souls"
She also participated at the Vogue photo festival in Milan in 2018.
In 2023 Ekaterina finished Elena Sukhoveeva's and Victor Khmelya's photography school. Then in 2024 Ekaterina entered Saint Petersburg State Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design.
Since 2024 Ekaterina has been studying documentary photography at "Photograffica".
The exhibitions Ekaterina participated in:
2024 – "Abstractio' in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the project 'Visibility"
2024 – "Flora and Fauna' in Saint Petersburg, Russia with the project "Plastic souls"
2024 – "Red Data Book' in Moscow, Russia with the project 'Plastic souls"
She also participated at the Vogue photo festival in Milan in 2018.
Photo project "Plastic souls"
"In my project I depict animals the same way people created rock carvings. I put their living self in some inanimate objects, the ones you see everyday, the trash. An object that kills them.
Plastic needs hundreds of years to decompose and become a part of the ecosystem. But we keep making more and more of it. It is drifting in our ocean, laying at garbage dumps and polluting our lives. The collision of mega- and microfauna badly affects all of the ecosystem.
Poor conditions of the ocean affects population decline of species. Some of the protected species are almost extinct. That should be a reminder that plastic will never decompose naturally.
What are we going to leave after us?”
Plastic needs hundreds of years to decompose and become a part of the ecosystem. But we keep making more and more of it. It is drifting in our ocean, laying at garbage dumps and polluting our lives. The collision of mega- and microfauna badly affects all of the ecosystem.
Poor conditions of the ocean affects population decline of species. Some of the protected species are almost extinct. That should be a reminder that plastic will never decompose naturally.
What are we going to leave after us?”