Summer HHS Winner: Nadia Sablin

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Summer Edition Hey, Hot Shot! Winner 2006
Nadia Sablin
Currently residing in Brooklyn, NY
website: nadiasablin.com
Work Statement
I was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, a city and country that no longer exist. The names changed after I left, the substance too. After growing up and getting a photo degree in the US, I went back. Not to St. Petersburg, and not to Russia — the legality of that was complicated. I found myself in Ukraine, in a small town where the Old World still existed. There is a sculpture garden where cows and goats pasture. People get water from wells. Traveling circus and zoo is a high form of entertainment. I took pictures for two years. The faces, the expressions of the people I encountered made me feel like I was in a fairy tale, a place Other Than. I tried to capture them as they were: old, dignified, magical.
Bio
When I was twelve, my family moved from the center of baroque Leningrad to a cheap apartment in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. There, I found a way back to beauty through art and photography. I attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and subsequently Rochester Institute of Technology, from which I graduated in 2002 with a degree in Photography. I traveled extensively through the United States, falling in love with America and its landscape. It wasn’t until my moving to Ukraine for two years, that I began to photograph people. Currently I’m exploring portraiture in Brooklyn, NY. I am 26, and feel there is no better age to be.


August 27th, 2006 at 9:33 am
HI NADIA:
Nice to see your work again! Sending you separate email. What work are you doing in Brooklyn? School starts next week… the past few years have been good. Good classes, good students.
JOHN
September 4th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Who likes your photo? Meeeee.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
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