Svetlana Smirnova (Russia, born in 1988) is an artist working with photography as a medium. She studied graphic art at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design and at Higher School of Printing and Media Technologies. Thereafter Svetlana started to work as a graphic designer and a commercial photographer. But soon she started to do her personal creative photography projects.

Svetlana photographs urban landscapes, transforming three-dimensional city spaces into two-dimensional abstract compositions. A dialogue between the harmony of color and shape is happening through the game with flattened space. The documentary nature of the photograph is moved to the background and gives a way to the author’s visual language.

In her works, Svetlana ponders how reducing the amount of detail can increase the impact on the viewer, and how this redirects viewer’s internal dialogue from analyzing objects in the territory of personal emotional perception and gives the viewer wider opportunities for photo interpretation.

Photos are made without collage by means of optical lens effects.