My Polaroid Still-lifes series are a photographic homage to the classic European paintings that I admired as a child . For the series, I chose Polaroid transfer technique in which emulsion from Polaroid film is manually transferred to a sheet of watercolor paper creating an image that looks and feels more like a painting than a photograph. I printed these images as digital archival prints with all  imperfections of original transfer image left untouched.

I also work a lot with traditional Polaroid 600 camera and film – their characteristic faded colors and soft texture give images slightly unreal, dream-like quality.

In Landscapes (the series I continue working on), I aimed to capture signs of human presence organically intertwined with nature - I have always been fascinated with how human artifacts subtly transform a landscape even in absence of humans themselves.

Education

• 2002-2006 - Columbia College Chicago, BFA in Photography

Collections

• The Polaroid Collection
• Columbia College Collection
• Private collections

Exhibitions

• 2008 - 19th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL
• 2008 - The Artist Project/Artropolis (Art Chicago), Chicago
• 2007 - One of a Kind Show, Chicago
• 2007 - Chicago Art Open
  
• 2007 - Interior Nature group exhibition, Black Walnut Gallery, Chicago
• 2007 - The Artist Project/Artropolis (Art Chicago), Chicago
• 2006 - Columbia College BA/BFA Photography Exhibition, Raw Space Gallery, Chicago

Awards

• 2006 - Honorary Nominee in Architectural Category, Black and White Spider Awards (London, UK)
• 2006 - Honorary Color Master (Nominee in Still Life category), International Color Awards (London, UK)