Biography

Anna Kazakova was born in Bratsk, Russia. Her early experience of observing nature shaped a sensitive attention to light, space, and silence. She began photographing with a film camera, using it as a way to capture emotional states rather than events.

In 2003, she moved to Moscow, where she studied at MSTU and worked in the financial sector. Despite the structure and precision of that environment, photography remained an essential part of her inner life.

Since 2017, Kazakova has been living and working in Berlin. In 2019, she completed a course in fine art photography. In 2020, she presented her work publicly for the first time in an exhibition at OstPost space after graduating from the school of photographer Dmitry Bulkin.

Between 2021 and 2023, she continued developing her artistic practice through studies with Russian photographers. In 2024–2025, she participated in the Creative Project. In the summer of 2025, she took part in the group exhibition City in Berlin (June–August) as part of the Creative Project.

Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between urban space and nature. Through her photographs, Kazakova explores suspended time, the dialogue between light and architecture, and the subtle presence of the human within the environment. For her, photography is a way to capture the moment when space becomes honest and revealed.