Biography
Jana Romanova (b. 1984) is a photographer, based in Saint-Petersburg. She got a degree in journalism from Saint-Petersburg State University and currently she works with photography, video and installations to investigate the theme of collective identities in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. As a photographer she challenges herself with experiments, where she becomes a part of different communtites, questions her own identity and explores the medium of photography and how it works as a tool of power through classification, systematisation and falsification, being something that is “created” by any community.
Her long-term documentary projects were selected for a number of international exhibitions and festivals such as Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal), the Backlight Festival (Tampere, Finland), Encuentros Abietros Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina) «Perchance to Dream» at Andrea Meislin Gallery (New York, USA), “New Saint-Petersburg” at Nieuw Dakota Gallery (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), , “Me, myself and I” by Anzenberger Gallery (Vienna, Austria), etc. and got several prizes and honorable mentions in pho-tography all over the world.