Biography
Yelena Zhavoronkova was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, and had been living in the United States since 1990. She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy with the degree in Industrial Design and working as a graphic designer.
For the last few years she is intensively studying and working in photography, which helps her to express her artistic vision. Her chamber projects are mostly very personal, but at the same time universal, talking to the viewers at an intimate level understandable to everyone.
The series "Memories in RED" could be described as an excursus to the personal history of the child growing up in the military family in the former Soviet Union in the 1960-s. She considers this as an artistic contribution to her the family's history and to the history of Russia during co-called "Thaw" period.
Among the other projects she is working on the "Art History" portrait series, inspired by the Old Maters' portraiture and the "Dead End", a series of black and white photographs with the city of San Francisco as a main subject. The visit to Japan inspired her to put together a collection "Spring in Japan".
