For the past 10 years I have been working in various cultural institutions: independent initiatives, as well as state museums, — in collaboration with world renown artists and experts, as part of the team and independently. I have experience in exhibitions management and research, collections management, writing, editing, translating, public speaking... I believe in importance of bridges between academic and museum work. In my practice, I try to connect the two areas by developing refined conceptions and generating insightful contexts.

Teaching is the best way to learn something — and I have given numerous lectures on almost every aspect of photography's history to various audiences: from teenagers at the "Pushkinsky.Youth" educational program to MA students at the leading Russian university, and general public.
Being a part of the local academic community, I have run international professional events, and I have put a lot of effort into expanding and popularizing photographic culture in the country. Currently, I am a member of the programme committee of the only annual international conference dedicated to photography in Russia.

My main academic interest is in Soviet photography, and I relish the challenges of multidisciplinary approach. You will see in my CV that most of my academic texts are on that subject, but I enjoy exploring XIXth century Russian photography as well.

I also work as a translator occasionally: I have translated non-fiction texts on arts and social sciences for major Russian publishing houses.

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