Marina Kazakova

Country: Italy 🇮🇹

I was born in Soviet Union and have never lived in one place for more than 5 years. Frequent changes of residence, the republic of the Soviet Union, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia and finally Italy. I studied journalism at Moscow University.
AWARDS ; NOMINAIONS: 1st place (portrait category) BW Child Photo Competition 2015. Shortlist LuganoPhotoDays 2016. 1st place Portfolio review FFE Festival Fotografico Europeo, Busto Arsizio (Italy) 2017. 2nd place (portrait children category), 2nd place (fine-art category) Honorable Mention (portrait children category) Tokyo International Foto Awards TIFA 2017. Finalist PeterFotoFest Saint Petersburg (Russia) 2017. 2nd place, 3d place, Honorable Mention (portrait category) Fondo internazionale per la Fotografia Italia FIIPA Awards 2018. 2nd place (portrait category) Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3) 2018. 2 Honorable Mention (fine-art category) Honorable Mention (portrait category) 4 Nominee BW Child Photo Competition 2018. 1st place (portrait category) ImagOrbetello Photo festival, Orbetello (Italy) 2018. Finalist PhotoVisa Festival, Krasnodar (Russia) 2018. Shortlist Athens Photo Festival, 2019. Black and White Series Of The Year 2019 at MonoVisions Photography Awards 2019. Photographer Of the Year (People category) IPA International Photography Awards 2019,
1st place (Children category) IPA International Photography Awards 2019.
Honorable Mention Siena International Photography Awards 2019.
1 place, Honorable Mention ND Photography Awards 2019 (Children, Family)
Winner of "Portrait of Humanity" 2020 (single image).
Remarkable Artwork, SIPA Siena International Photography Awards 2020.
EXHIBITIONS: Group exhibition BiFoto Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Sardegna, Mogoro (Italy) 2017. Group exhibition of all the finalist of the 2017 PeterFotoFest Saint Petersburg (Russia). Group exhibition of all winners of the 2017 Best Family PhotoMoscow (Russia). Solo exhibition of Festival Fotografico Europeo FFE, Busto Arsizio (Italy) 2018. Group exhibition of all winners the of the 2017 Tokyo International Foto Awards TIFA, Tokyo (Japan) 2018. Group exhibition of all winners of the 2017 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3), Paris (France) 2018. Group exhibition of all the finalist of the 2018 PhotoVisa Festival, Krasnodar (Russia)2018. Group exhibition of all the finalist of the 2018Imago CATULLO photo festival, Sirmione (Italy) 2019. Group exhibition Sublimations Milan (Italy),Arles (France) 2019.
Group exhibition "Imagine all the People sharing all the World" Siena International Photography Awards 2019.
Group exhibition "The Best Of Show" IPA Winners NYC, LA (USA) Okinawa (Japan) 2019/2020