Aleksandra Kiseleva

There is something both reassuringly familiar and starkly unsettling about the strange netherworld evoked by the Moscow-based artist Sasha Kiseleva. The viscous, undulating otherworldly forms that populate her recent works pulsate with ambiguous meditations on mortality, genesis and dreams, managing to evoke a sense of familiarity in the viewer while presenting them with something utterly alien. Satellite Voices spoke with Sasha to find out which part of her psyche these bizarre inner worlds have sprung from… Text by Kemal Tarba*

www.behance.net/kiseleva
www.flickr.com/photos/sasha_kiseleva

Anton Velikzhanin

I live in Moscow. First time I thought about photography was in 2003. I was inspired with extreme sport. I was taught photography by my grandfather Victor Leonidovich Velikzhanin – a honored worker of culture of Russian Federation, a photographer of news agency “ITAR-TASS”. I practiced working as an assistant with different photographers. Being 4 year student I started working at the musical TV channel, then I worked as a documentary film editor. Through this experience I was totally absorbed with photography.

I’ve collaborated with different apparel companies: “Quiksilver”, “Sprandi”, “Fiction wear”
My photos were published in magazines “Doski”, “onBoard”, “Extreme”, “offline”, “MountainBikeAction”
and others on-line editions. Staged photography is my best whether it be still-life or advertising photography. All this is mine.

I’ve been awarded at different extreme-photo competitions and participated in the collective exhibitions of street culture Faces&laces. I’m opened for collaboration with designers and artists.

www.avlk.ru

Ivan Andrianov

Ivan. Photographer and videographer. Starting point of his career was a crash on a bike, followed by rehab. Meanwhile he started photography and later — filming. His main source of inspiration is music. Direction of developing — documentary and cinema. Yet he still actively cycling. Riding on all kindes of bikes (mainly dirt jumping) and all other kind of stuff: rollerblade, skate, ski, moto. Loves playing ball games, dogs and cookies with chocolate chips.

www.vimeo.com/ivanya
www.flickr.com/photos/ivandrian4ik

Pasha Chupakabra

Pavel Vabishevich. Photographer and videographer.

www.vimeo.com/user655067

Bring Brink

Bringk Graphic designer and illustrator, has been skateboarding since 1999, and snowboarding at all. Skateboards, pencils, cartoon eyes and tongues are chewed up and spitted out as bringk.

www.bringbrink.com

MC MOONSTAR

www.mcmoonstar.com