Hiding In Shadows

• Photographer
  Aliona Kuznetsova
• Prize
  Bronze in People / Self-Portrait
• Socials

I created this series while working through childhood trauma with a therapist. I tried to work through it myself in the past, but it never ended well for me. Even with a doctor, the PTSD symptoms started to become intolerable so I engaged in this special art therapy project. As a child with trauma, I grew up to be a very troubled adult. Because when you don't feel love from someone who should be genetically programmed to love you, for the rest of your life you will be wondering if you are an unlovable, worthless, ugly person or just so sick that you can't register love that was always there.

• Biography
  My name is Aliona Kuznetsova and I am a photographer. I believe that my art is a mashup of everything I saw, felt, thought, and experienced. More than this: through all my life – four countries I lived in, dozens of cities I traveled to, a mood disorder I am battling, meeting and parting with my closest friends – my art has been a silver lining that helped me day by day to refine the understanding of who I really am.
• Awards
  Select Exhibitions Black Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece Affordable Art Fair, NYC with SeeMe Trident Booksellers and Café Liquid Art House By the Sea at La Voile Dreams at Trade Restaurant Reveal Showcase by RAW Artists, Boston Ovation Showcase by RAW Artists, NYC Deep Water at Le Copernic, Switzerland "Heroes, Heroines & Heroics" with Flagler County Art League "Unprecedented, Art Response to 2020" with View, Center of Arts and Culture Palo Alto Art Center with Peninsula Photo Contest 2021 - Honorable Mention See|Me, Nature/Nurture, Finalist North x Northwest: Out of Isolation by Yellowstone Art Museum, 2021 Viridian Artists Presents: the 31st International Juried Exhibition, 2021, NYC (AUG21) ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA™ ( YEAR 2) A Global Art Project Los Angeles | Group Exhibitions, Solo Features & Representation, The Dab Art Co. The South San Francisco Cultural Arts Commission 2020 “Living in Virtual Times” - Honorable Mention Abstract Catalyst 8 - Verum Ultimum