ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A portrait of a girl who eats a little, smokes a lot and turned her back to the world

Made in 2010.
I wanted to show a face of my friend when I was shooting her, but it happened that I showed her back‏

AUTHOR
Anna Kadykova was born in 1984 in Moscow, Russia. Graduated from Russian State University for the Humanities. Worked in Pacific Film advertising agency as an assistant for the selection of photographers and directors. Then worked as an assistant of the famous Russian animation director Ivan Maximov. In 2012 graduated from “SHAR” school-studio as animation director. First personal animation film “The Mole at the Sea” was warmly remarked by the critics and selected to record number of international film festivals including Berlinale, Stuttgart Film Festival, DC Shorts and others, was awarded by Russian and International film festivals.
Parallel to animation Anna started to develop her photography skills. Her studies were based on such examples of the classical photography as the works of Elliott Erwitt, Richard Avedon, Anri Cartier-Bresson, Arnold Newman, Annie Leibovitz. Anna’s Works are in private collections in Russia, USA, Germany, Austria. Finalist and winner of international competitions and exhibitions.
Anna lives and works in Moscow.

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