Brittle_Marble

It was shot from the top of the hill when the Baltic sea and the lake were still frozen. The ice there is like the rare marble. It is coloured by the foliage from a continent, it reflects the skies. It is almost never white there. That is why people in spite of severe weather - the second hill with trees saves the valley and its palaces from the west winter wind - visit the place in winter and spring. It is like viewing cherry blossoms in the rest of the world. It is possible to find colours in the place and time when it is almost impossible to cope with sadness and grey.

Olga Gubanova is an artist based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Originally born in Saint Petersburg in 1985 she was enrolled in Saint Petersburg State University at the Faculty of Psychology in 2002 and graduated the department Engineering Psychology and Ergonomics, the specialization Organisational Psychology, in 2007 with a M.A. in Psychology. She splits her time between being a project manager and an event planner (educational, social and business events), a writer (science fiction, stream of consciousness) and a photographer. She writes in English and in Russian. She is strongly attracted by minimalism, architectural and landscape photography. In 2014 Olga's photograph "Brittle Marble" was awarded in PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS PX3 competition by second and third prizes in categories Fine Art/Landscape and Nature/Trees. Series "Streams of Particles" was awarded by Honorable Mention in the category Advertising/Architecture. In autumn 2013 Olga's photograph "Ecru No. 16" was included in III Biennale of Contemporary Photography in The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. In 2013 Olga was chosen as a finalist of 33rd Annual Spring Photography Contest presented by Photographer's Forum Magazine in USA. Olga's photograph "There Where Golden Cherries Hang" was published in 2013 in the US in the book "Best of Photography 2013". PUBLICATIONS The book "Best of Photography 2013", USA, 2013 Magazine: PhotoVOGUE.it, Italy, 2012, 2013, 2014 Magazine: pfmagazine.com, USA, 2013 "Biennial Catalogue of III Biennale of Contemporary Photography in The State Russian Museum", Russia, autumn 2014 "Annual Px3 Book No. 07", France, winter 2014 Saint Petersburg Photographer Magazine, Russia, 2014, author, writer