About the author
Masha Chudnaya (1994, Saint Petersburg) is a professional documentary and portrait photographer, and a poet. She graduated from the Fotografika Academy of Documentary and Art Photography and from SPbGIK (photo/video).
Laureate of the “MFR-2022” and Camera Leica competitions.
Author of photo projects published in Republic, S.T.O.L, and Takie Dela.
Member of the art self-organization “Postoronnie”.
Photo projects
- Uranium Dreams, 2024 — a journey to the village of Kalachi, whose residents became victims of a mysterious exposure
- Square Meters, 2023 — seven stories about people who managed to leave neuropsychiatric institutions and live independently
- My Golden One, 2022 — notes by a Russian about life and people in Kazakhstan, a country that became his temporary home. Photos by Maria specially for Takie Dela.