This is a on-going project that started in 2018, when I visited my hometown in Russia on my own for two months. Previously I had visited in short stints and usually with my mother. That summer, I also finally brought a camera with me and began documenting my grandmother and her daily habits as well as her surroundings and the town that I grew up in until I was nine years old - which is when my mother and I moved to the USA.

Distance Between Us — Installation

A site specific installation for Espacio Modotti, a photography school in Valencia, Spain. The constraints and possibilities of the available spaces helped me think about the project in a new way, where I combined archival images from my own childhood as well as childhood images of my grandmother and my mother, with the images of the salt lake near the town that both my mother and my grandmother were born near.