Jana Romanova

Jana Romanova is a photographer, based in Saint-Petersburg. She was born
in 1984 in Russia, and got a degree in journalism from Saint-Petersburg State University. Currently she works with photography, video and installations to investigate the theme of collective identities in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. As a photographer she chalanges herself with experiments, where she becomes a part of different communtites, questions her own identity and explores the medium of photography itself.
Her long-term documentary projects were selected for a number of international exhibitions and festivals such as Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal), the Backlight Festival (Tampere, Finland), Encuentros Abietros Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina) »Perchance to Dream» at Andrea Meislin Gallery (New York, USA), “New Saint-Petersburg” at Nieuw Dakota Gallery (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), , “Me, myself and I” by Anzenberger Gallery (Vienna, Austria), etc. and got several prizes and honorable mentions in pho-tography all over the world.