Russian-born photographer Tatiana Ivanova specializes in capturing humans–both posed and in action. Her contributions to the international photography scene include both music photography and portraiture.
Tatiana Ivanova is a self-made woman in more ways than one. She taught herself photography at a young age by taking snaps of her favorite subject: people. In the fifteen years, she has continuously practiced and improved her technique. Part of her aim is to capture not only beauty but meaning and emotion in every photograph.
Conveying more than the surface looks
Her favorite medium is black-and-white photography. She uses it for its dramatic, expressive qualities. The use of color in a photography can distract viewers away from other elements. These include shadows, textures, composition, and gestures. Black and white photography takes that distraction away and often has more impact as a result.
Tatiana’s photographs are very good at evoking emotion as well as portraying beauty. Her subjects are most often women, whom she photographs in a tastefully erotic style. Her images of women mix boudoir flirtiness with the drama of high-art photos.
Capturing moments in music and inspiring others
As for the other subjects of her photography, she loves photographing famous people and fellow artists and has worked in music photography for over half a decade.
Tatiana has spent five years working with the Russian band B2, for whom she has done promotional photographs and a photography book. She has also worked as a videographer for them, shooting four of their music videos.
She is also an accomplished photography instructor. She uses her personal experience as a photographer to inspire and inform others and teach technical knowledge.
Photography as collaboration
When photographing people, you collaborate with them to create the image. Tatiana works carefully with each subject to evoke not only the right pose and expression but the right emotion, lighting, clothing, and surroundings.
Inspiring the right emotion in a subject, helping them overcome camera-shyness, and helping them express themselves are all part of her usual work. The end result is an image that looks like a still in the subject’s personal movie.
Current projects and future plans
In the future, Tatiana hopes to work with more famous people and see the results of their two talents mixing. She has already worked with models, actors, comedians, and musicians and looks forward to more collaborations.
You can find out more about Tatiana and her work at her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ittalia/. It includes several examples of her past and current photography work.
