About this series

we did this shoot on the black sea coast in Odessa

my hometown

on a nude beach

the water was ice cold

but the evening was warm

now it hurts to remember peacetime

Model Sasha Zhvan

Summer 2021

Kristina Podobed

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Kristina Podobed was born in Odessa in 1994.

She started her photographic journey in 2011, mainly documenting herself and her female friends.

Even if your stance on bodies, nakedness and sexuality in photography is free-spirited enough, Kristina’s Podobed photography are there to catch you off-guard, to push you to the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image. It is the photographers walking that fine line who end up challenging society’s moral status quo – and it’s those photographers that we need the most today.

In 2015 and 2016 Kristina studied at International Summer School of Photography in Latvia (Jim Goldberg and Anouk Kruithof workshops )