About author

Elena was borne in 1983, in Russian city Ufa.

Elena is a photographer who is interested in every aspect of motherhood: relationship and connection between a mother and a child, changes that happens in a woman’s worldview after she becomes a mother.

Most of Elena’s art is focused on capturing moments of every day life of her triplets daughters.

In 2021, her project about children and motherhood was published in several magazines such as “Private” and “Edge of Humanity”. In 2023, the authors works participated in group exhibitions Haze Gallery /Berlin, Germany, Smol Gallery / Saint Petersburg, Russia, Imagenation Paris, Galerie Joseph le palais / Paris, France.

The main subject of Elena’s art is motherhood.

The author finds her inspiration in her triplet daughters. Elena takes everyday life portraits watching her children growing.

Her photography is a story about children’s relationship, about sisters’ closeness, about their childhood.

In 2021 Elena made a project about connection between a woman and nature, beauty of female body and motherhood

Elena Saifutdinova
nickname Elena Sakurova
Ufa, Russia
+7917 789 22 79
sakurova@inbox.ru

Exhibitions: 

2024-  F-STOP, Group exhibition, project “Intertwined” www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/125/groupexhibition.html  

2023-  Group exhibition Imagenation Paris, Galerie Joseph le palais / Paris, France

2023-  Group exhibition Haze Gallery / Berlin, Germany

2023-  Group exhibition Smol Gallary / Saint Petersburg, Russia

Publications:

2024- Private, project “Intertwined” www.privatephotoreview.com/2024/05/intertwined-a-project-about-my-childrens/

2024- L'Œil de la Photographie, project “Intersections”  loeildelaphotographie.com/en/elena-sakurova/

2023-  London Independent Photography, project “3”  www.londonphotography.org.uk/magazine/flip-50-future-past/

2022- Iconic

2021- L'Œil de la Photographie, project “3”  loeildelaphotographie.com/en/elena-sakurova-rty/

2021- Vouge www.vogue.com/photovogue/photographers/253183/gallery#3145648

2021- Edge of Humanity Magazine, project “3”  

2021- Edge of Humanity Magazine, project “Intersections” edgeofhumanity.com/2021/08/17/the-connection-between-motherhood-nature/

2021- F-STOP www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/109/groupexhibition.html#gallery-79

2021- F-STOP www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/108/groupexhibition.html#gallery-47

2021- Private, project “3” www.privatephotoreview.com/2021/10/number-3-became-truly-magical-for-me/

2021- Private, project “Intersections” www.privatephotoreview.com/2021/08/intersections-the-bond-between-mother-and-child/

2021- Vouge, Squardo, Marica

2020- Vouge  www.vogue.com/photovogue/photographers/253183/gallery#2726302

2020- Iconic iconicartist.eu/archive/15/10/2020

2020- Squardo