Nina Koltchitskaia

Originally from Moscow, Russia, where she lived for the first 10 years of her life, Nina has afterwards lived in Vientiane, Laos and in Milan, before moving to France, Paris where she lives and works today. After studying literature and philosophy at la Sorbonne, then as a photographer at the ICART Photo School, she presented a first solo photo exhibition entitled "Love me tender" in 2010. Her series «Paradise Hunters», first exhibited with the World Wide Women collective in Paris, was also shown in the Siblings Factory, Brussels, as a solo show in 2015. 
In December 2016 she presented for the first time a selection of her drawings series « LEFT HANDED LOVERS » as a solo show at « Le Pigalle » , in Paris.

To live and work in the world of art imposed itself to Nina as an obvious path. Traveling without ever really settling down pushed her into photography, and gave her the desire to create her own universe. A photo camera to record, capture people's feelings, and mix it with her own : expressing her own privacy. Using only film cameras for all of her projects, Nina favors the authenticity of the film to digital photography. Grain and dust from the film tells an additional story for each photograph Nina creates. The process of surprise and mystery makes each photo more unique. Nina's passion for drawing and video-making developed later, but her drawn portraits or videos with frozen faces intend to express the same mixture of proximity and distance - between feelings of others and her own private emotions that Nina transmits through all her works today. 

Accuracy and inaccuracy are everywhere, in order not to ignore the imperfections of each individual human being, while the colors characterize the freedom of feeling, of imagination. As a journey into the dreams or the soul of her characters - Nina’s works are a result of a very intimate art.