Kristina Shakht is a Russian-American photographer and visual artist based in New York City. Born in Saint Petersburg and formed by multiple migrations, her work begins where belonging breaks down. Her images inhabit spaces where the staged and the observed collapse, and where distance, absence, and restraint operate as deliberate forces rather than neutral conditions.

Drawing from lived experience without becoming autobiographical, the work resists resolution. Memory, ritual, and the body recur as sites where private experience intersects with collective and political pressure.

Her editorial and commercial work includes Marc Jacobs. She has been featured in i-D, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Office, and Sleek.



Available for editorial, commercial, and moving image commissions:

Email: kristinashakht@gmail.com
Instagram: @kristinashakht