ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Shooting year: 2018, Printing year: 2019 Print: obtained with the alternative photographic processes with technique of "GumBichromate" (multiple exposures, 4 colors layers). Materials used for printing: powdered natural pigments, watercolor paper Lana (100% cotton, 300mg), image size: mm. 400x 400
Gum Bichromate is a technique conceived around 1855 and very popular in the decades between the 1800s and the 1900s. For its innumerable interpreative and creative possibilities, it was widely used by pictorial photographers of that time.

AUTHOR
Anna Melnikova is a graphic designer, artist, art photographer, associate
professor, master of art history.
She was born on June 14, 1986, Belarus.
In 2011 she graduated from the Department of Graphic Design of the
Belarusian State Academy of Arts. In 2012 she graduated from the Belarusian
State Academy of Arts with a degree in Art History. In 2015, she completed her
postgraduate studies at the Academy of Arts with a degree in Design and Technical
Aesthetics and received a scientific qualification as a "researcher" in the field of
fine arts.
Associate Professor of the Department of Graphic Design of the Belarusian
State Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2022, Minsk (Belarus). From 2018 to 2020
she was the Acting Head of the Graphic Design Department of the Belarusian State
Academy of Arts. Since 2022, she is the chairman of the graphic design and
photography section of the "Belarusian Union of Artists".
Creatively works in the field of graphics, art photography (the main activity
is focused on experimental and alternative photography and old manual techniques
for printing photographic images).
Participant of more than 100 republican and international exhibitions and
projects, including 8 personal exhibitions (one personal exhibition was held in
Barcelona, four personal exhibitions were held in Italy, two of which were in
Rome and three solo exhibitions in Belarus).
Laureate and finalist of national and international competitions and projects.
Works are in private collections of Belarus, Italy, France, Great Britain, Czech
Republic, Spain.
Member of the graphic design section of the "Belarusian Union of Artists"
since 2015. Chairman of the graphic design section of the "Belarusian Union of
Artists" since 2022.
Member of the alternative photography association Gruppo Rodolfo Namias
(GRN). Parma, Italy.

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