About me

Hello, I’m Alina 🙂
Born in Siberia 🇷🇺, lived in Ukraine 🇺🇦, happy camper in Canada 🇨🇦.
I specialize in portrait and family photojournalism photography. I love to click, smile and travel.
Photography is more than a job to me, it’s my passion.
My Approach
I’ve been photographing kids and families for over a decade, so I had a chance to develop quite a few tricks for getting the best out of any shoot. My sessions are stress-free and fun. I provide you an experience start to finish: from helping you choose outfits and places to pick out the best products for your family and home.
I am based in Montreal, Quebec.
Fun Facts
- When I’m not taking pictures or retouching, I’m out on an adventure with my family. You can keep on track by following my Blog or Instagram.
- In my childhood I supposed to attend school at -50C (-58F).
- My favourite books are The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin and The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
- I fell in love with photography watching my aunt working in a darkroom, making prints from weather satellite for local meteo station.
- I have degrees in Linguistics, Tourism and Advertising.
- While retouching I put Netflix or Radio Canada etc. as a background sound. I have never seen all the popular series, but I have listened them for sure.
- In my life before photography I worked in marketing and IT
- I’m still learning English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Expositions
- Nursing mums and their babies. Kharkiv, Ukraine – 2012
- Large families. Kharkiv, Ukraine – 2013-2014
- My favourite shot. BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany – Sep.2019
- Memorable portraits. Qlick Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland – Nov.2019
Education
Diploma in Photography and Adobe Lightroom (ShawAcademy), Psychology, advertising, Lifestyle Family Photography (Emily Lucarz), Authentic Portraits (Chris Orwig), Storytelling Portraiture (Kelly Brown), Portrait Startup (Sue Bryce)