BIOGRAPHY

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

Veronika Verbitskaia was born in 1997 in Yaroslavl, Russia, and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Her school and university years were closely connected with music, poetry, and the visual arts. Over the past decade, she has used photography as a medium for recording emotional states and their relationship to events in the surrounding world.

Since 2022, photography has become the core of her artistic practice. Through experiments with analogue film and self-portraiture, Veronika gradually moved towards abstract visual narratives.

Veronika is a winner and finalist of international photography competitions. Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Russia, and across Europe.

Her practice is driven by curiosity, emotional sincerity, and a continuous exploration of contemporary photographic art.

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AWARDS

  • 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

  • 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 — MFAMILIA, “Photo of the Year, ” Moscow, Russia
  • 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 — Academy of Documentary and Art Photography “Fotografika”
  • 2025 — Fotodepartament
  • 2024 — 2025 — Natalia Zhukova’s 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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