Hello, I’m Antonina! I’m a photographer, an artist and an educator.
I’m a Russian born Brit who has been living in the UK for 15 years, and working as a professional photographer since 2009. During that time I have become one of the leading UK family photographers, and my work has won a number of awards, has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, and has been featured in The British Journal of Photography and The Digital Photographer Magazine, among other places. But it’s the positive feedback I receive from my clients which I hold as my highest accolade.
I’m based between London and Surrey in the UK, but I have photographed families from all over the globe and travelled to the USA and Europe with my clients.
Awards
18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, winner, Children Category – 2022
Top 100 Female Photographers To Watch by Click Community – 2022
Portrait of Britain 2021, shortlisted – 2021
This Is Reportage Family Awards – 2021
Documentary Family Awards, finalist – 2021
Portrait of Britain 2019, shortlisted – 2019
Top UK Documentary Family Photographer, FJPA – 2018
Top 10 Worldwide Documentary Family Photographer, FPJA – 2018
Documentary Family Awards, honourable mention – 2017
Publications and Features
Roadtrip – ShutterHub Publication – 2022
F-Stop Magazine, Parenting Issue – 2022
Black River Magazine – 2022
The Sunday Times – Portrait of Britain feature – 2021
Breakfast of Champions, Photo Cereal Zine, feature – 2021
United by Work Show Grow, cover and feature – 2021
Picture (im)Perfect, book feature – 2021
Digital Photographer Magazine, feature – 2021
#SheTakesOver, feature – 2021
British Photography Journal, feature – 2019
Portrait of Britain vol 2, book feature – 2019
Exhibitions
Summer Exhibition – The Royal Academy, UK – 2022
Traces (group), PHOTO-Canopy 2022, Burton On Trent, UK – 2022
She Takes Over (Out of Home Campaign), UK – 2022
Despatch (group), New Forest Heritage Centre, UK – 2022
Postcards from Europe (group), Art at the ARB, Cambridge University, UK – 2022
Picture (im)Perfect (group), Origin Gallery, Norfolk, VA, USA – 2021
Picture (im)Perfect (group), Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, USA – 2021
Phlock Spotlight Exhibition (group), Manchester, UK – 2021
Behind the Mask (group), NHS Confederation Conference (online) – 2021
Visions of Fatherhood (group), Luupe, online – 2021
100 Years of Stonehendge (group), English Heritage – 2020-2021
Behind the Mask (group), NHS Tribute Project, St Ethelburga’s Centre of Reconciliation, London, UK – 2020
Group Exhibition, Berlin Blue Gallery – 2020
Group Exhibition, The Print Space – 2017
Speaking, Teaching and Interviews
The No Posing Guide, The Societies of Photographers Convention, London, 2022
Meditations on Marginalisation, Artist Talk Salon, Work Show Grow, 2021
Real is the new perfect, The Photography Show, NEC Birmingham – 2021
Documentary family photography: the art of real life, Phlock Live Conference – 2021
Documentary family photography: the art of real life, The Photography Show – 2021
Turning Chaos into Art: Elevating the Documentary Image, Made for Documentary group mentoring programme, 2021-ongoing
Seeing family love with photography, The Family Photographer Podcast – 2019
On documentary family photography, Shoot Edit Chat Repeat Podcast – 2019