Victoria Gladsten (b. 1983, Moscow, Russia) is an art photographer.
In her works she uses a combination of classical photography and collage to talk about living feelings, emotions. She has been interested in photography since 2017. Out of many types of photography, Victoria settled on self-portrait. Through it she tries to show how external events affect the emotional background and how the body reacts to it, her knowledge of psychology helps in establishing cause and effect relationships.
Artist Statement
I’m very inspired by nature, amazing and bright people, travelling, new places, music, unusual events, exhibitions, other authors. I try to bring people back to themselves by my pictures. The modern pace of life in the world is very fast, time has sped up. For example, I see a woman who has so firmly “put on” herself a man’s suit that she has simply forgotten about her female nature. On my pictures she sees herself as different deep person and wants to keep that differency.
Photography has also become a motivation to realise and reveal myself. Most of my work is self-portraits. Through self-portraits I broadcast that it is normal to be different, it is normal to feel emotions. Self-portrait is a tool for self-acceptance. Communication with myself. In my art I want to show that you can’t forget about yourself. That You are the main person you have. First of all you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself, then on the child. Through self-portraiture there is a slowing down and fixing of one’s state. My self-portrait is self-therapy.