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“Dina's world is full of allegories, metaphors and multifaceted associations. This world is sometimes absurd and paradoxical, sometimes strange and surreal, but this world is a reflection of her true feelings. In this world, different emotions coexist side by side: irony, fear, joy, pain, sometimes even madness and despair, but there’s always a presence of hope and there’s never hatred. She doesn’t like to impose her point of view on the spectator. She only slightly opens a door to a wonderland, where everyone can find something of his own.
For Dina, art is something that appeals to our senses and emotions, and not to our intellect and instincts. Her language is the language of intuitive characters and metaphors. She tries to avoid flat and primitive clichés, which appeal to our basic instincts, such as sex, fear or disgust. Perhaps this is why various spectators interpret her works differently, according to their own perception of the world. This is exactly what she is after.
Recently, she finds a lot of inspiration in Biblical stories from the books of Genesis and Ecclesiastes. What inspires her is its mystics and philosophy of life. In her artworks she improvises on these stories, not in an illustrative way, but emphasizing on philosophical aspects.
She thinks that it's not important how an artist creates his work. It can be created with any tool and any medium, but it should speak for itself and convey a very special mood. It should need no explanation, no elaboration and no apologies. It can be very aesthetic or the opposite of it. The most important thing - is freeing the imagination, so "the sky is the limit"...
To date, over 60 of her works have received over 260 international photography awards in 24 countries. She won 48 medals, 21 of them Gold. Selected awards: Blindonkey Art Prize 2011 (Italy) - Grand prize winner in Digital Art category; PX3 Paris 2011 - Bronze medal in Fine Art professional category ; -Black & White Spider Awards 2011(UK) - Honorable mention in fashion professional category; Julia Margaret Cameron award 2011 (UK) - 1st place in "Nude" and 2nd place in Fine Art professional categories; Hasselblad masters 2011 (Denmark) Finalist (1of 10) ; IPA 2010 (USA) - 4 Honorable Mention awards in professional Fine-Art categories - Collage, Nudes and Portrait; PDN World In Focus 2010 (USA) - First prize; Sony World Photography Awards 2010 (France) - Finalist ; Aqüeducte Biennale 2010 (Spain) - a title of Gold Aqüeducte author; Nikon NIPC 2009 (Japan) - Second prize etc...”
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