BIOGRAPHY

About Veronika Verbitskaia | Contemporary Photographer. Veronika Verbitskaia | Contemporary Photographer | Dublin

Veronika Verbitskaia is an emerging visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland, working primarily with analogue photography. Her practice developed from self-portraiture into a project-based exploration of personal experience, domestic space, and everyday environments.

Working through close observation, Veronika is interested in the relationship between inner experience and the spaces we inhabit. Her work explores women’s lived experience, intimacy, anxiety, and uncertainty, often approaching these subjects through seemingly ordinary objects and routines. Rather than separating the personal from the wider social context, she considers how cultural expectations and broader conditions become embedded in everyday life.

Born in Russia and living in Ireland since 2022, her experience of navigating between cultural contexts forms an additional layer within her practice.

CV

AWARDS

  • 2026 — Commended — Siena Creative Photo Awards — People
  • 2025 — Bronze — TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) — Collage
  • 2025 — Honorable Mention — TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) — People
  • 2025 — Finalist — Life Framer — Portrait Award
  • 2025 — Honorable Mention — IPA (International Photography Awards)
  • 2025 — Honorable Mention — VIEPA — People and Portrait
  • 2025 — 1st Prize — The Independent Photographer — Portrait Award
  • 2025 — Finalist Top—50 — ArtKoko
  • 2025 — Editor’s Choice — Lensculture — New Visions, Critics Choice, B& W
  • 2025 — Editor’s Choice — The Independent Photographer — People Award
  • 2025 — Honorable Mention — Monochrome Photography Awards
  • 2024 — Honorable Mention — EPEX Photo Awards
  • 2024 — Honorable Mention — TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) — Self-Portrait
  • 2024 — Finalist — Russian Photo Awards
  • 2024 — 1st Place in Collage Abstraction — World of Abstraction
  • 2024 — 1st Place in Art Photography — Russian Art Week

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2026 — The OXO Vol. 5, Outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland
  • 2026 — Siena Awards Photo Festival, “I Wonder If You Can”, Siena, Italy
  • 2026 — Tokyo International Foto Awards, TIFA Winners Exhibition (presented in screening), Tokyo, Japan
  • 2026 — Union of Photo Artists of Russia, “Neovision”, Krasnodar, Russia
  • 2026 — Union of Photo Artists of Russia, “Light painting”, Krasnodar, Russia
  • 2025 — Union of Photo Artists of Russia, “Life’s textures”, Krasnodar, Russia
  • 2025 — Union of Photo Artists of Russia, “35 Years of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia”, Krymsk, Russia
  • 2025 — The Independent Photographer, Annual Exhibition, London, UK
  • 2025 — Union of Photo Artists of Russia, “Neovision”, Krasnodar, Russia
  • 2025 — IMAGENATION PARIS, “ICONIC Photo Show”, Paris, France
  • 2025 — LOOSENART, “Resonance of self”, Rome, Italy 
  • 2025 — Vienna International Photo Awards, Honorable Mention (presented in screening), Vienna, Austria
  • 2025 — Russian Photo Expo, “Family as Art”, Minsk, Belarus
  • 2025 — ARTKOKO Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 2025 — IMAGENATION LONDON, London, UK
  • 2025 — Reverberation, “Creative Weekdays, ” Klin, Russia
  • 2024 — Eurasian Art Union, “Russian Art Week, ” Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 — Reverberation, “Wind of Wanderings, ” Klin, Russia

PUBLICATIONS

  • Online Platforms: THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHER, LENSCULTURE, LENSCRATCH, F-STOP Magazine, LIFE FRAMER, PHOTOVOGUE, ICONIC ARTIST MAGAZINE, DEHAZED, АРТКОКО
  • Print Editions: ICONIC ARTIST MAGAZINE

EDUCATION

  • 2025 — Present — International Academy of Documentary and Art Photography “Fotografika”, Advanced Program
  • 2025 — 2026 — FotoDepartament, “Marshruty” intensive programmes
  • 2024 — 2025 — Natalia Zhukova’s Fine Art Photography School

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice focuses on revealing everyday life and routine within the domestic space, which is commonly perceived as safe and familiar. I am interested in what remains unnoticed through repetition or is consciously overlooked because it causes discomfort, irritation, or seems too ordinary to sustain attention.

I work with post-event situations, observing the traces that life leaves behind through a position of non-intervention. In this process, the camera becomes a tool of attentive witnessing. The images emerge through proximity, duration, and restraint.

Working predominantly with black-and-white film and close framing, I allow real lived situations to transition into fragments, textures, and traces while maintaining a connection to direct observation.

Through this approach, I explore how domestic space accumulates presence, habit, and tension, and how photography is able to register what remains after events have already passed and attention gradually dissipates.

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