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)

Editorial

Shutterstock

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