Anna Chobotova (b. 1979, Karelia, Russia) is an artist working with photography, the artist’s book, and archival materials, combining documentary observation with authorial reconstruction. Her experience of living in Karelia has shaped her visual language and the range of themes she explores. In her projects, she draws on history, myth, and everyday spaces to explore how they help reconnect people with place and cultural memory. In 2025, she was selected among the Top 100 photographers of the Leica 100 Years project.
Education
2026 — Yulia Pavlova’s “Project Photography” course, “Photography Genres from a 21st-Century Perspective. Project Thinking” course by Ekaterina Vasilyeva.
2025 — Yulia Pavlova “Memorial Laboratory”
2024 — “Artist’s Book, Zine” courses by Yulia Pavlova, “Collage” course by Oleg Borodin.
2008-2023 Author’s courses, master classes by leading Russian and foreign photographers (Studio Harcourt
(Paris), Magnum Photos, Mark Fearnley (London), Leica Akademie: Alan Schaller, Alexander Medvedev, Andrey
Chezhin, Igor Sakharov.
2006-2007 Academy of International Cooperation, international diploma with a degree in photography
2004
-2005 — The University of Manchester, PD in Cultural Management.
1996-2001 Karelian State University Pedagogical University, Faculty of Foreign Languages
(Finnish, English)
Personal exhibitions
2022 “Walking in Paris”, MBU TO “KUZMOLOVSKAYA DSHI"/Saint Petersburg
2015 “Disappearing Shadows”, Karelian State Philharmonic/Petrozavodsk
2012 “Letters from childhood”, Fotonerds Gallery,/Joensuu, Finland
Group exhibitions
2025 “Interference Field” installation, Art Garden Gallery, Saint Petersburg
2024 The collage exhibition of the Parisian collage club Earth Dance/ Paris
2024 'Rezh da Klej' fest “Nichese”, Moscow, ARBUZZ Gallerymuseum of Moscow.
2024 Mobile shelf of zines and photo books of the Nizina project.
2024 Pilot project of Zines and the author’s book “Paper Stories” , Petrozavodsk
2020 “Breaking the Kalevala Codes” Russian Center for Science and Culture, Helsinki +Estonia+Lithuania+ Budapest
2019 “Opening the Kalevala codes”, Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia/ Petrozavodsk
2017 Monocle, a photo exhibition based on the results of the All-Russian photo contest dedicated to the monocle lens/
K. A. Timiryazev Library
2011 “Author-time”, Industrial History Gallery/Petrozavodsk
2010 “The time of the day.OnegaTraktorny LOFT project, Cultural Initiative Center/ Petrozavodsk
Selected publications
F-STOP a photography magazine (group exhibition, issue — Object Image)
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