Girl with tree (2021) Photography by Ira Kolominova

Ira Kolominova is a talented Belarusian photographer, born in 1979, who lives and works in Brest, Belarus. She stands out for her passion for film photography, pinhole and manual printing of photos from film, as well as her contact work with digital negatives.

Ira Kolominova is an experimental artist who explores various techniques and uses vintage cameras as well as old photographic materials. His inspiration stems from artistic movements such as pictorialism and magical realism. She creates black and white photographs that capture the essence of magic and realism in a unique way.

The artist attaches great importance to the process of manually developing her photographs, as it takes her back to happy times from her childhood, when her whole family would gather to print photos late at night, in a small kitchen. For her, it was true magic and an enchanted experience.

Ira Kolominova uses an alternative printing technique called "lit print", which is a variation of the silver print method. This technique creates unique prints that are impossible to reproduce exactly. Each print has its own character, hue and texture, preserved on the photo paper. She generally favors the use of old Soviet photo papers, each of which has its own distinctive nuance.

Each of his photographs is carefully framed in a mat, available in different colors and sizes according to his clients' preferences. Ira Kolominova creates works that are both an homage to analog photography and an exploration of artistic creativity through traditional techniques.

• Nationality: BELARUS
• Date of birth : 1979
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• Groups: Contemporary Belarusian Artists