Biography  

  Serafimova Elena Igorevna was born in 1986 in Borisov, Belarus.  

  She received her higher education in finance and banking. She then changed her field of work and devoted herself entirely to artistic and documentary photography.  

  EDUCATION:  

  2025 — Nizina creative laboratory “From photo archive to project”.  

  2024 — Valery Nistratov’s original course “Contemporary Documentary Photography and Narrative”.  

  2022 — Georgy Pinkhasov’s course “The Art of Photography”.  

  EXHIBITIONS:  

  October–November 2025 — participant in the online group exhibition “Environmental Portraits”, organized by F-STOP magazine.  

  October 2025 — Participated in a group exhibition at Ephemere Photo Fest, Conceal Shibuya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.  

  June 2025 — Participant in the online group exhibition “Echoes of Being”, organized by ARTDOC magazine.  

  June–July 2025 — participant in a group exhibition on an open theme, organized by F-STOP magazine.  

  May 2025 — participant in the online group exhibition “THE MEDITATIVE LENS”, organized by ARTDOC magazine.  

  April 2025 — participant in the group exhibition “Archive of Memory”, organized by NIZINAFEST in the workshop of the art group “Give the Wall” together with the bookstore “NO ONE SLEEPS”, Tyumen, Russia.  

  March 2025 — participant in the group exhibition “Echoes of Yesterday”. MILLEPIANI Gallery, Rome.  

  February–March 2025 — participant in the online group exhibition “Landscape 2025”, organized by F-STOP magazine.  

  January–February 2025 — participant in the online group exhibition “Whispering Shadows”, organized by FLOAT magazine (USA).  

  2024 — winner of the photo contest “Life in Zenit III” in the nomination “Shot on film”, PJSC “Krasnogorsk Plant named after S.A. Zverev”, part of the Shvabe holding, Moscow, Russia.  

  2024 — finalist of the photo contest “Objectively about Moscow -2023”, Mosstoinform, Moscow, Russia.  

  2023 — participant of the VII International Photo Contest “Russian Civilization”.  

  2023 — participant of the Russian photography festival “PhotoTOP portrait 2023”, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia.  

  2023 — Two-time winner of the International Exhibition and Competition “Russian Week of Photography”, Eurasian Art Union, Exhibition Center of Arts Gallery “ART-COMMUNA”, Moscow, Russia.